A virtual pee game?  Only in Japan.

Tired, but Ollie wanted to skate. But once I started getting warmed up Ollie wanted to kick a soccer ball. Oh well, I wasn’t skating good anyways.

The Mighty LZA in the first steps of grouting.  We finished the grouting Monday night and have to let it sit for 3 days.  In the meantine we’re finishing the caulking, repainting, etc.  I think Liz is getting pretty sick of the caulk/cock jokes.  Yes, I am 12 years old.

One of the finest bands around these days and the new album comes out on April 7:They had the song of the day on NPR and it kills it!

 

Yeah it’s not believable, but I thought it was pretty funny.  I love the Photoshopped photo of Ollie’s rock fakie on Rampy turned into a pivot fakie on the mega ramp and the Rodney Nullen scientist name the most.  Fun times.

Somewhat chilly night in the 30s Nate and I hit red curbs around 9pm.  Man I love being able to actually skate again and not have my foot killing me.  I was definitely still skating like crap, but it was fun.  We skated mostly the curbs and I felt like I was relearning 50s and crooks.  I couldn’t lay into a crooks on the 2 stair ledge to save my life although I would somehow land it almost everytime.  I can jib a crook everytime but I hate it.  Trying to grind it doesn’t seem to work for me.  I just pop right out everytime. Argh.  We tried some other stuff too.  I’m really trying to learn how to ollie so I went around ollieing the yellow flat bars over and over then tried to ollie a orange thing that was kinda tall.  Never got it.  Came close though before getting too tired.  I ended up ollieing it off the curb which is still somewhat hard because of the quick setup.  I suck at ollies.  Nate was killing back 180 fakie 50s, but had wrecked himself trying the ol’ front 50 back 180.  It got real cold come leaving time.  Skating ist rad.

SPIN – SXSW 2009: Dinosaur Jr. Interview
FARM JUNE 23!!!!!!!!

So many fun looking spots and I can’t believe how hard Jeff slams on them.

Liz putting in the last piece of the puzzle.  Grouting next.  CAN’T WAIT FOR THIS TO BE DONE.

After another not fun at all day in the tub I picked up Neil on a nice afternoon to try and find a decent sized patch of dry concrete.  We met up with Nate where he works and just stayed there at Google.  Nate lowered the yellow bank and we skated that as well as a snow pile and the bank into the parking garage.  Nate was ripping.  Neil wasn’t very motivated.  I felt like I was learning to skate all over again.  It took me several tries but I was able to ollie a little snow pile that Nate and Neil had no problems with.  Landing in cupsoles rules.  I had one little mini run with an ollie over the snowpile then feeble to fakie on the bank.  Yippee.  One of the ollies over the snowbank felt really good.  After awhile we were playing a game of SKATE, but I got a call from work so it just fell apart.  I cracked my board really bad on a heelflip then focused it before we left.  Hyped to be able to street skate again.