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Sorry for the lack of updates. You would think it was because I was super busy, or because I was on some super amazing blowout trip. Not the case. Just lazy.
Case in Theory played at the Blank Club in the middle of the week, and it was good to see them playing. They had new songs which were pretty sick.
Finally saw Quicksilver on Thursday night for free at Camera 12. The SJBC is hosting a monthly bike movie for free with prizes and everything. Quicksilver is soooo sick because it stars “Larry Fishbourne” and in a way sums up my life. Definitely sucwiddable. Gonna snag that DVD.
The iMD/SJF swap meet was earlier today, and it was a good time. There was a good amount of people who showed up. My total net earnings was -$3. Don’t ask me how that happened. Oh yeah because I came up on a brand new Castelli beanie for the $5 buc suc.
I gotta say I was a little disappointed with people at the meet. I brought my “riding jeans” to sell, but nobody took. Guess my jeans were too baggy for the hipsters with 1.2% body fat. Yea so I’m curvy, I like myself that way!
This is me after my first and only sale.
Nhan brought his dog out to the park. It’s rare to see a Vietnamese dog that is still alive. Suc!
I love things on the cheaps, but I love free things even more. Traders Joe’s had free passes to the San Jose Giants, so I snagged a good handful of tickets. The San Jose Municipal Stadium is literally just a mile away from downtown, so a group of us rode out and bike piled along the outside fence. Half price beers when the beer batter strikes out too.
A group of about 10 of us made our way down from San Francisco to San Jose. We took the train up, only to find out that we got succc’ed twice on board. Matt had dookie on his shoe, and my hydration pouch was leaking all over my backpack. All good, because the Sharks were going to win later on that night right? Wrong.
Ordered some new glass for my camera; kinda sick of using the 50, every single shot is so effin close cut. Hence the reason why I haven’t been posting all too much this week. It should be coming by early next week.
Anyway we had a movie night at Reggie’s last night, for a pretty cool SXSW flick called Medicine for Melancholy. Shot in San Francisco, a pretty hilarious movie in it’s own right. Lots of awkwardness which I can relate to….fart
One night stands and bikes ftw!
Sitting here at the airport waiting for my flight to Sin City. I’m a total idiot, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of you readers, as I forgot to bring any sort of cable/device to upload my pictures while in Vegas. I’ll try to get my hands on a usb cable to upload my daily activities in the desert.
Also, Mark let me borrow his bike box so I was able to bring my bike, pissed off that I had to pay the full $50 for check-in. Still cheaper than renting a car though.
Here are some random pictures from the weekend.
I’ve been taking advantage of the sunny but chilly weather, by riding and just plain enjoying life. A small group of us started Monday off by riding down to the Morgan Hill area, and then back up to this crazy mountain of a hill in East/South (?) San Jose? We just wanted to scout the location for the upcoming Tuesday night ride. Since it was Chinese Vietnamese New Year, we grabbed some food at Di-Lac. The place was jam packed full of da so coo Vtek gais, but the vegetarian food was good and cheap. Even Herb and Chris who I haven’t seen in a while made it out.
On Tuesday, Mark, Matt, Pavel and I did a rail n ride up to San Francisco. Pavel needed to grab some plants for his fresh water tank. He said his spot was in the cuts, and it literally was in a 6 foot wide alley. The rest of the time we spent doing a mini city loop ride, while stopping at various locales. We were all pretty effin tired by the end of the day, but there was still riding to be done. The group went up Yerba Buena, and then bombed the hill, I lazily went down the bottom half only haha. Mark’s brand new el cheapo tire that he put on that day was ripped to shreds.
Started the day off with a Ride-n-Rail up to the city (read: took bikes on caltrain and traveled to San Francisco), did a loop short loop around the Embarcadero, and got attacked by a huge mechanical spider.
Wat da suc doo?!??
It was an absolute gorgeous day in San Francisco, and all I had was my stupid point and shoot camera again.
Worked up an appetite by then, so we headed over to….the Oldest Slot Machine Video Games Manual Hand Crank Devices Museum.
By then I was seriously hungry, but we couldn’t eat just yet. We came across the biggest gathering of Santas south of the north pole, and got a good view of Santa from behind.
After that we finally were able to grab some food, where Bennett hooked it up by way of his broken Cantonese. Can I get a shieng sha jee jee?
where you want to eat doo?
The holiday season isn’t truly complete without some lame lame lame sweaters and White Elephant!
I'm Jared, and i hook it up ariiiiight??!?
Hey you slap da jack doo!
By the end of the night, the true manifestation of my idiocracy had been fully revealed to all. Bravo peoples, bravo.
I seriously look like an idiot 100% of the time; except right here.
A quick picture of some sustenance that I managed to squeeze into my bag.
No car?
I say no problems.
I officially have no car. Yeah I finally did it, got rid of my car, now let’s just see how long I can last with out a vehicular automobile driving machine.
It all happened last week, and I’ve been getting around just fine with my bike and good ol’ public transportation.
My goal is to last all the way through next winter, so we’ll see what happens. So why no car?
Here are just a few reasons:
- Great way to be green
- Save money (gas, insurance, maintenance)
- Don’t have to worry about parking
- Challenge myself
By the way the picture up there is supposed to represent one less car. Hence the empty space in between the two cars.
I had to travel to Cupertino today for work related training, and will be going there for the rest of this week.
Since I had to get there super early, I decided to get there by bike and bus to forego the early morning traffic. It only took about 35 minutes! I think that it would have taken even longer if I had driven on the freeway.
For those of you who don’t know, Cupertino is home to the mother of all Whole Foods. I would have to say that it is at least twice the size of your regular Whole Foods.
The instructor gave us an hour for lunch, so I biked over to Whole Foods, and grabbed lunch. It was kind of pricey, but it was fresh and healthy. I packed everything into my bag and went back to campus to eat.
I bought a bunch of vegetarian food, and threw it into a box. By the time I got back to campus, it was all nicely mixed from the ride haha. I pulled out my trusty point and shoot to document.
Along with the main entree, I snagged an Odwalla bar and some sushi. My beverage of choice was water filled up from the campus break room in my Klean Kanteen.
It is now estimated that some Americans spend about 20% of their salary on gas.
Well just think, what if you didn’t drive for one or even two days out of the work week?
You could take public transportation (which most jobs will happily pay for), carpool, bike, or even telecommute.
Just doing that for two days out of the week would bring that percentage down to 12%. You would be doing your part by being green, and spending less of your hard earned green on gasoline. I know this is an extreme case, but think about your situation. I’m sure you’re spending way more on gas than you would like. Those living in the San Francisco Bay Area can use 511.org, which is a great resource for driving alternatives.
It’s been a while since I upgraded any parts on my bike, which is my main source of transportation during the work week.
So I ran into a couple of guys on the street while I was riding, and they happened to be selling a wheel. Nothing fancy, just a machined Velocity Deep V laced to a Surly hub. Definitely better than what I was rolling on.
I was able to get the entire wheel for $60, which should make my commute just a little better. Make friends, and make a deal.
