Lei

Motorbikes, Cars, Smoke and Volleyball

The other weekend I abandoned some friends and went motorcycling instead. It was sunny and a friend had two bikes insured. So he let me ride one. I rode a Yamaha RZ350 while he used his fixed up BMW K75. Both are from the mid to late eighties although the RZ350 2 stroke is gaining value these days. No one makes 2 stroke street or sport bikes these days so the pickings are slim. They fetch as high as $5500 USD on Ebay.

And you can't be a motorcycle rider without getting a really short haircut. Across the street from where I parked my car to get the cut, I noticed this other vehicle. A rather ugly looking vehicle as one can only imagine what the owner was thinking.

You can't really tell but on the back are some canteens for emergency water I think. Notice the horn on top for jousting or whatever. And yes, that is carpet on the outside covering a large area of the body.Yes, Toyota's do last a long time. Maybe a little too long.

These days, the air is thick and you can smell the burnt ashes everywhere even inside the house. Yet there is no fire nearby. In fact, the fire is burning and smouldering many miles away in burns bog. All across Delta, Surrey, New Westminster and other nearby municipalities the smoke sits. I parked my vehicle to take some photos near the highway just before the Alex Fraser Bridge. Sitting there for about a half hour taking shots and watching all the planes fly above me making passes through the huge plumes of smoke rising across the land. The large water bomber was called up for duty while today, the helicopters were used instead.

Tomorrow the smoke will still be there and the house will continue to be polluted.

The first day of volleyball at the Harry Jerome Centre was good. Everything except that we will be struggling and fighting for last place probably being our first time doing this. We have a mixed bag of people that have hardly played this sport before as well as a few being vertically challenged. Then there's one or two that are completely not vertically challenged but are too timid to use their strengths.

So the first evening went like this. In our time slot, everyone played starting from various courts numbered one thru six. Courts one through four are inside a netted area at the centre of the facility. Courts five and six sit outside and at the ends of the oval stadium. For ten or fifteen minutes we play continuously until a whistle is blown. At that point, all the winners move up one court and the losers move down one. By the end, what you get is a self ranking system with the top team in court #1 and the worst on #6. We got stuck with #6. This now become our goal for this fall semester. To at least make it inside the netted area thereby playin in the top four courts and gaining some sort of respectability.

Posted by LeanPorkLei at September 14, 2005 01:07 AM | TrackBack