Part of the week, and that’s saying alot considering how many parts I watch every single day.

Had a good night of sleep or something and felt good all day.  Was good about standing, jumping around, stretching at work and felt great when I left work after a longer than usual day.  The family had already eaten and was occupied doing homework and whatnot so I boxed up a Null order and delivered it to Fedex then stopped by Savers for something silly for my work White Elephant.  Then I drove to campus for some skating.  It was humid as it had rained (yes it’s mid december and it rained instead of snowed) earlier in the day and there was still some puddles on asphalt.  For whatever reason I had been thinking about a line all day.  Ollie up the UMC two stair, back 180 off, sw 180, ollie the 4, front 180 the 3 so I was hoping to warm up to that.  After some fast pushing and cruising I ended up new big Visual Arts building where I did a few slow kickflips to get warmed up.  I played on the weird long bench with all the sections missing to stop skating.  I ollied onto one section then would try to ollie to the next section, etc.  It was way hard and I didn’t feel like trying it much longer so I went up to the UMC ready to battle my line I had been thinking of.  Unfortunately there was a bunch of dudes standing on top of the two stair so I went back to the fountain area.  I tried some fast (for me) pop shoves followed by ollieing onto the 5 stair ledge, off then ollie down the 3.  I was having problems on the pop shove and my board took off toward the two stair so I just left and the cancer stickers were gone.  The ollie up the two is weird because you have to ollie early because of a big crack.  It ended up not being so hard after a few tries.  I would have thought the back 180 would have been really hard, but I guess the ollie up the two set me up perfect for my cheater angle and within a couple I was riding away from those, even going past the crack.  And I gotta say that was probably the highlight for me.  I normally suck at back 180s and I was landing them almost every try.  Now for some stupid reason as I would turn around and head to the 4 stair I would get a weird nervous feeling and stop before the 4 stair.  I’m not sure what that was about so I finally just ollied the 4 on it’s own and finally the butterfly was gone.  A few tries later I landed all but the last front 180 of the line.  Sweet, next couple tries!  Well, maybe not quite as the back 180 was troublesome for a bit, but I ended up getting the whole line.  Ollie up the two, back 180 off two, horrible sw 180, ollie the 4, horrible front 180 the 3.  That set me up going downhill on a bikepath so I tried a halfcab flip and bailed.  I decided I wanted to do the line better and get the halfcab flip too.  Next try.  Ollie up felt good, best back 180 I’ve ever done, sw 180, ollie 4, decent front 180, halfcab flip, kickflip, lots of pushes, powerslide, kickflip a crack, bail a treflip.  I was so hyped.  Not sure I’ve ever done 8 tricks in a row before.  Anyways this set me back up to the weird long bench with the missing sections to ollie over.  Obviously a lot more warmed up, but somewhat sore from so many stairs (ha ha ha) I did the quick up and ollied 3 missing sections and ollied out first try feeling on top of the world.  It was still pretty warm out (seriously, I was sweating) so I decided to skate awhile longer and line out some more stuff.  I wanted to do the quick ollies on the ledge then a treflip.  That took awhile as both of those tricks were so hard for me.  At one point I noticed I had cracked my board really bad at some point that night.  It still had pop, but the crack was 4 layers.  Ah well.  Coming the other way I would try a fast (again it’s me so imagine me going about 1/10 the speed of Busenitz) ollie over some cracks then kickflip a crack gap.  I ended up getting the lines both ways and the temperature had just started to drop quickly so I went home.  Totally spent, but super hyped.  One of the funner days of skating I’ve had this year.  I love skating by myself once or twice a week.  I would say it gives me a chance to land more stuff, but really, it just gives me a chance to land stuff I’m too embarrassed to do around others.