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Sunday Drivers, Two Wheels or Four, More or Less
If two guys ride one wheel each, are they really riding a bicycle-built-for-two?
“No,” Liz Arden said. Emphatically.
Sunday drivers — four wheels: We headed West along the Overseas Highway until I saw an interesting house in the distance on Middle Torch. Drove past it; it was interesting but not particularly photogenic. Jogged left and right and left and right and tested the shocks up and down over the frost heaves on Dom Road on Big Torch Key. Saw a plot of land reserved for theme camps out past the end of the power lines and took a bunch of pictures of dead mangroves. I didn’t photograph the thank-you-ma’ams.
We honked and waved as we passed a couple of guys from Brooklyn riding unicycles near the South Pine Channel Bridge but, since we didn’t go looking for Key Deer this time, we didn’t see them on the No Name bridge to No Name Key. I hope they had pizza for lunch.
Fat Albert played peek-a-boo with the clouds. I photographed a homeless fellow living large on Higgs beach as well as a couple of weddings on Smathers beach.
Sunday drivers — two wheels: Keith Nelson and Robert Hickman arrived in Key Weird by unicycle yesterday. Their six-day performance art project commemorated the 100 years of the Flagler railroad bridges and the brand-new Heritage Trail system.
Mr. Nelson and Mr. Hickman pedaled along U.S. 1 from Key Largo to Key West on one wheel during their Unibridge Tour. They said the road quality was the worst in the 6-7 miles leading in to Key West but the Seven Mile Bridge quickly became the scariest part of the trip. It rained, their unicycles are taller than the railing, and traffic passed at 55 or 60 mph. Thwap thwap THWAP!
Mr. Nelson swallows swords and juggles as the Clown Price of the Bindlestiff Family Circus. Safer than the Seven Mile Bridge. Mr. Hickman is an associate professor of sculpture and art at Hunter College, New York.
They completed the trip as part of Sculpture Key West’s 17th annual exhibition. The show runs through March 2013 at Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park and West Martello Tower.
Mr. Hickman wanted to exhibit a rock sculpted by the highway. He started the ride pulling the rock behind his unicycle but it built up friction in his tire. The heat exploded the tire so they cut it loose about Mile Marker 30 and kept on going.
Everyone sets up at the southernmost point or at Mile Marker 0. Not me. I ran the motor drive about four rolls worth at Mile Marker 1 for the two unicyclists.
Now it’s time to get back to work.
This
bridge across Spanish Harbor from Bahia Honda is one of my favorites in the Keys. It’s worth a trip here before the remaining railroad bridges fade into the green waters.
Wordless Wednesday
Cyber Monday Is Back! One Day Only! Shop Now!
Anne got spammed this morning. For whatever reason she gets email from Home Depot and I don’t. Today, they sent “Cyber Monday savings.”
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I don’t wanna shop now. See, I’ve done my part for the economy this year. I spent almost my entire $423 right here last weekend.
The average shopper took advantage of “door buster deals” over the Thanksgiving break to spend $423, up from $398 a year ago, while total spending reached an estimated $59.1 billion, according to the National Retail Federation. The average person spent $172.42 online during the same period, or approximately 40.7% of their total Black Friday spending.
We counted on our fingers and figured out that my television here was 17 years old. I bought it (on super sale, of course) from my store-owner friend, Christy, when Sears decided to put all their independent stores out to pasture. It was a top-of-the-line RCA then but it has a few foibles, not the least of which is a purple haze that covers people’s faces in one screen quadrant some of the time. It has performed flawlessly since I got back here to South Puffin but I figured the time had come.
Likewise, my cordless drill works perfectly. Of course, it has a very limited life left because the charger stopped after charging the batteries one last time. I can’t find a replacement for that charger anywhere.
And then there are two of the Uninterruptible Power Supplies we use to keep the juice flowing. After all, we can’t lose electricity right in the middle of these stirring phrases or during a stunning upset in the National Hockey League playoffs.
Oh wait. There are no hockey games this year.
The UPS under the desk is still in warranty but the 1987 model that powers the audio/video center is out-of-pocket.
The new television, cordless drill and light, and the UPS totaled up to about $422 but that doesn’t count the camera lens and hood I bought online.
Do you suppose it still counts since I wasn’t buying anything for Christmas?
In the It Figures Department, yesterday I trash picked a 32″ Sharp television at the lovely, new, yellow house a couple doors down on the other side of the street. It came with a genuine Sharp remote and a review that says it has “spectacularly bright and vivid color images and dramatic stereo sound.” I couldn’t find a manual on line. It’s a slightly curved CRT but probably has a better picture than the new LCD. Oh well.
I really snatched it up because it came with a truly nice and almost big enough TV stand for the new flat screen. I wanted a small table as a temporary measure until I can build-in the new A/V cabinet. This will do pretty well and I can keep it to go back under the new-to-me Sharp in the guestroom.
Cyber Monday is back!
Woo.