Oh no, not another post about the bike...

Today, after struggling to attempt to get my bike on a hook on the max, a guy who is a hardcore bicyclist (fancy road bike, the weird shoes, the goofy skin-tight clothes with pockets in strange places) walked up and said, "I hate to be a stereotypical guy, but do you need help with that?" I said I just didn't seem to know the trick to it, and he told me: grab bike by the brakes, stand it up on its back tire, ease off the back brake just enough to wheel it towards the hook, and then push the bike up with my knee under the seat. Nice!! He commented, while gesturing towards my Raleigh, "that's a really heavy bike, too..." and I grinned and said it sure is! It works, in reverse, getting the bike off the hook too.

Yay!!

I took some pictures this morning while on the Hawthorne bridge. They're really pretty, but I have a feeling that once I can see them bigger, they'll be very blurry...it doesn't matter how still you hold the camera if cars are going by and making everything shake. Which is too bad, because the way the pre-dawn light hits the city is a sight worth getting up early for. I'd leave the flash on for the shorter time exposure, but then I think the shot would be too dark to see anything.

My commute is now shortened to an hour each way, from an hour and a half. Kick ass. From when I clocked out this afternoon to when I walked in the door was about an hour, and that's including getting semi-lost going from Goose Hollow to the Hawthorne Bridge (yes, Jefferson is a nice street, but it's going the wrong way, and oy that hill on Columbia sucks), and stopping to talk to Tyson for like ten minutes--I ran into him getting off work and walking towards the max.

Riding past two blocks of stopped traffic and getting to the light as it turns green = so freaking awesome

Getting some momentum going downhill before the Hawthorne bridge only to have to come to dead stop at the bottom for a red light = not so freaking awesome

One more thing...

...and it's not bike-related!

This Saturday is the last Saturday of the month, and that means Bhangra at the Fez, with DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid. I'm going, as far as I know both jenhowell and rikell42 are going. Anyone who wants to come along is invited (pokes 5minutelimit and nikkiling).

Woo! Indian dance music! I've gone once, in January, and it was super awesome. There's always been something getting in the way of me going every month since, unfortunately. I even bought a skirt especially for it back in, like, May.

It's non-smoking on the top floor, it gets really hot and crowded (except for behind the stage, which is cool and strangely empty), you'll dance so much you'll be sore all over the next morning. Also, it starts at nine, and when we went, it was sold out by 10:30 or 11:00--as in, they had the maximum number of people in there allowed by the fire marshal. *lol* So you gotta get there pretty early, like 9:30 or so!