October 16, 2001

• On a lighter note, I rode my bike to drop off the laptop at my local Authorized Service Center.
  
  To get from my house to the Authorized Service Center by car, you drive over the very steep and very busy Phinney ridge, and then drive around a lake. Return the same way.
  
  To get there on a bike, you have to climb Crown hill (which isn’t so steep) until you get to the point where the valley between Crown hill and Phinney ridge isn’t so steep, cut across, zoooooooom down the far side of the ridge, cross a very busy highway, go around the lake, do your business at the Authorized Service Center, go get a granita, ride the other way around the lake (cuz you sure as hell ain’t goin up where you zoooooomed down), climb the ridge at the other end where it’s not so steep, discover you have a flat rear tire half way up the ridge, and then walk the rest of the 20 extra blocks that you wouldn’t have had to walk if you’d just started out walking home.

  • 2:14 am
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