Posts Tagged ‘rain’

In Soviet Trondheim, road hits YOU!

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Hehe, I was just on my way to my first hour of motorcycle driving practice. I was driving my scooter, and I was driving reasonably slow, maybe  around 20-25 km/h (although, in hindsight.. I should PERHAPS have driven even slower) :)

Anyway, as I’m about to exit a roundabout, the rear wheel looses it’s grip and the scooter starts sliding sideways. oh, did I mention it was raining? well, it was and that roundabout was unbelievably slippery.

So there I was, sliding sideways knowing all to well what was about to happen, and as the crablike movement of the scooter slowed it down, the rear tire finally got a hold of the road again. This of course made the scooter throw me off like the angry little plastic pony it is.

Terrible traffic accident
“Artist” rendering of the accident.

So I flew trough the air about a meter or two, hit the road elbow first.  Luckily the Road broke my fall, and seeing that I was wearing a full motorcycle dress, I could just get up and drive on.

I actually seem to recall a tiny voice inside my head going “Wheeeee!” in mid air,

The results of this interesting experience is:

  • A small scratch on the helmet
  • A bruised elbow
  • A little less paint and plastic on the scooter
  • The deformation of the forward brake handle.

I feel a bit soar on the right elbow, hip, and upper chest, but otherwise I’m fine.. Sitting in the couch watching Macgyver like I’m supposed to, Just 2 more episodes left and I can start on season 4 :)

7 Days of hell

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Damn, this has been an exhausting week.. It all started at work last Friday when we got a list of lots of crappy functionality we had to implement in the game by Monday. So my weekend was pretty much spent on adding products and setting up tenders in PRIME:

Tuesday evening was lost while taking the final part of the boating course.

Wednesday I had to walk over an hour outside in the pouring rain, and take the VHF/SRC exam.

Thursday I had to walk  an hour outside in much worse weather, and take the boatman’s exam.

Now it’s Friday and I’m taking the day off to recover.

At least both exams went great and I should get my VHF Short Range Certificate, and my certificate of boatmanship in a couple of weeks.