Random Thoughts

Usually I thought UTI's might infect other parts of the body.  That is pretty flawed thinking.  I have been on meds on and off for a while.  Whether it's fungal or bacterial my yard work makes it difficult to discern.  I got bit by something cutting a dead limb off of one of our ash trees.  The bites don't hurt at all, but they cause an allergic reaction on my skin that looks pretty severe.  I got bit by a spider on the should that got infected and stayed around for over three weeks.  I popped it regularly, and white puss would ejaculate onto my bathroom mirror.  It was gross, but after that tedium of squeezing it day after day, finally it went away.  Puss is your body's way of dealing with an infection.  My UTI just came out of nowhere while I was taking other meds.  No usual.  Then I realized that it was the other way around.  The UTI came from a bacterial rash on my hands.  Whence it came I don't know, but it was angry and spreading.  Antibiotic cream quelled it in a few weeks, but evidently I gave it to my groin in the daily routine of practicing hygiene.  Cipro it is, and it seems to be working.  It was pretty serious with flank pain, or rather kidney pain.  It hurt all over.  I haven't been drinking.  That's a double whammy.  The train activity has been off the chart, because now the Aberdeen and Rockfish are assembling trains behind Berean Church.  Their shortline tracks run parallel to Robeson Street, cross Village Drive, cross Raeford Road, and head out Cliffdale.  I never knew they were using this area to assemble DAK trains.  They make polyester resin products like plastic bottles.  Certainly we need more of those in a worldwide pandemic.  If I complain about the railroad activity, it gets worse.  They punish me.  Perhaps they think using this area mostly hidden from the public somehow condones diesel freight activity in your back yards.  It sucks.  So now they are shunting cars from the Russell Street yard shared by CSX and N/S to this little yard near Cross Creek Mall.  Glory.  What a timely and wonderful activity.  Those two stroke turbo charged soap box derby engines are dinosaurs and they are really invasive.  What are the odds that shortline railroad tracks traverse your neighborhood?  I mean there is no where to hide.  Back and forth and back and forth.  So the pellets from DAK now are going to Southern Pines.  The Aberdeen and Rockfish have the contract for the moving of their finished product.  Interesting.  I know CSX shuttles in the raw materials right down Russell Street.  All of this side of town thanks the Aberdeen and Rockfish for their two stroke turbo charged diesel electric engines that just sit and sit and sit in our neighborhoods.  Thanks so much.  So on another note Team Pain builds a lot of skateparks.  They got the job done here in 'Nam, but I discovered one thing in this building process.  The new school of skateboarding is different than its predecessors.  I would think that the Z Boys and the Bones Brigade still would be involved in modern skate aesthetic, but that is not the case.  All of the parks Team Pain are building are of a different school of thought.  What is it?  What could be so different?  All of todays' tricks are variations of flip tricks.  Alan Gelfand created the Ollie, and now the ollie is everything.  They are flip tricks.  The big deal is the difference in transitions and their purpose.  Today transitions are meant as propulsion.  They are not to be carved.  Rarely do you see a Bert today on a transition.  The transitions or slopes or grades are there solely do launch you into a run to do flip tricks.  That's why dropping is is the new thing.  This thing about hanging over the lip and then dropping your nose to get going.  That is what it is.  Instant momentum.  It is not from Animal Chin where you had to use your own momentum to get to the top.  I think it is a bit of a shortcut.  It used to be called an elevator drop, but I don't think I've ever seen vintage footage that shows one of the Bones Brigade dropping in on a pool.  They didn't do it.  When I look at the Team Pain parks this is how they are designed, with flip tricks in mind.  They are not really the same train of thought as the parks from the 70's.  It is a whole complete different school of skating.  Instant momentum.  It doesn't appeal to me, because I am looking to draw lines through the parks like you are riding the perfectly tapered asphault waves of Bellagio Elementary School.  You have to pump your board.  You don't drop in to get speed, like "Whoosh."  So those kinds of lines are not really there, and I can't ride the bowls.  This generation of skaters are using gorilla form kind of hunched over and lanky, while the Z Boys and Bones Bridage had a very defined and athletic from based upon surfing.  I can't do it.  And now the park is closed because of disease.  It's a shite state of affairs.