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Whiteface Mountain

Last Friday, while at work, I did the inevitable.

Put about 5 of these up

The Beast (Saleem's engine), a 3.0L v6, 160hp

So yes, Saleem, the car that was my main mode of transportation since High School, is now finally at the end of his service to me. It is sad but I feel justified in some sort of weird buddhist way. Which is interesting because I'm beginning to actually understand it I think. Suddenly the other day the thought popped up in my head that ownership is stupid. I shall have to talk to David on that one.

Friday night I went out for some drinking with Doug. I stayed out too late, hanging with him and his all his Public Administration womens. I didn't get back until about 1 o'clock AM and didn't get to sleep until 2. Which sucked, because I had to wake up at 6:30 on Saturday morning.

Inoue-san, ready to ride!

Saturday, Keisuke, Yukiko and I went mountain biking at White Face Mountain. It was...intense. Took us 1 hour 35 minutes to ride up the mountain to midway station. We took a few minutes breather at the top, then started down. It took us 8 minutes to go down. This is because the way up is almost entirely 20 degree grade, uphill all the way. Needless to say downhill was *fast*. We survived unscathed but out of breath. Me especially, after having drank the night before, and not having slept a lot.

That night we went out to a um...establishment of water...

Fine, it's a bar

Where we ate lots of food because we were starving, and had some fine beer (but not a lot). Then we went back to our hotel and crashed at 10pm. I was out when my head hit the pillow, which is rare for me.

Came back to Syracuse today, and got back in time to catch my old boss coming back from his own camping trip with his mistress.

The assistant dean of the college of engineering is dating a student at Syracuse University. Doesn't that seem wrong?

Ohwell that's all the news for one week(end). Will post when more interesting things happen....

Posted by reid at August 18, 2002 09:22 PM