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Bike repaired and in sufficient riding condition. That took me a good long while, after all the crap that's happened to it *while it sat in that bike rack for a good year and a half*. Fucking kids, I swear; cut my brakes, fucked with my handlebar... But it's ridable again. Unfortunately, upon the first test ride, I cramped my right groin. :/
Loaned cell phone is working. No, y'all aren't getting the number just yet: not until I can confirm whether Stirling's going to at least be paying for minutes on this one. Until then, I only want one call to be recorded - the one I made to my own home phone to make sure it was even activated.
My dad keeps being booted from his IM service whenever I try to IM him, so I sent him an email about the check and the cell phone (I actually did this last night, but didn't want to be the only thing everyone's friends pages saw). He won't get to check that until Monday, so I got a weekend until he even sees it, and a good week before I get the check anyway, even if he *does* send it as soon as he gets the message.
I guess I'll have to ask my roommates if they'll let me practice driving in their cars. I'm not *that* bad; back in Cincinnati when I was visiting my grandparents for Christmas, they ran out of ice, so my dad let me drive down to the gas station to buy some, whereupon I passed a state trooper who didn't even give me a second look (and this was in Ohio, where the cops actually care and are kind of assholes about their job). ^^; So, I mean, I don't suck; I've just never had a reason to go get it without a car, and even if I owned a car, I couldn't afford the insurance to drive it. (I love the 21st century.)
Now, for those of you who saw the entry last night and read it:
I was doing a bit more searching this morning, and it turns out the Tsingtao is actually the river that runs through the area, forming the deepest canyon in the world. That particular region was actually very far to the East of Samye, at a point known as Rainbow Falls / Hidden Falls (there are two different waterfall systems in the area). This didn't fit what I thought, so I reason several things: I was on a trek, as I so often was; or what I actually saw was more like this:
Either is very likely. In fact, upon searching on a map I found of the region of the canyon, there's actually a point on it labeled "Druk" (Wilie transliteration: 'brug. Translation: Dragon); could this have been my final resting place? Or am I just coming up with convenient stories, as I so often do? I don't know, but I'd like to at least go check it out. Unfortunately, this point is literally out in the middle of nowhere; a single trail crosses it between a very small town called Matok Dz and the aforementioned Falls, the closest of the two being a good 15 miles from it as the crow flies. This also doesn't account for the fact that the closest airport is farther from it than Samye itself, and that would put the foot-trail at a good forty miles if I take the one "jeepable" road the closest I can get to it (and this road is a good 275 miles at least). In other words, if I really want this, it's going to take me being almost willing to kill myself. :/
Loaned cell phone is working. No, y'all aren't getting the number just yet: not until I can confirm whether Stirling's going to at least be paying for minutes on this one. Until then, I only want one call to be recorded - the one I made to my own home phone to make sure it was even activated.
My dad keeps being booted from his IM service whenever I try to IM him, so I sent him an email about the check and the cell phone (I actually did this last night, but didn't want to be the only thing everyone's friends pages saw). He won't get to check that until Monday, so I got a weekend until he even sees it, and a good week before I get the check anyway, even if he *does* send it as soon as he gets the message.
I guess I'll have to ask my roommates if they'll let me practice driving in their cars. I'm not *that* bad; back in Cincinnati when I was visiting my grandparents for Christmas, they ran out of ice, so my dad let me drive down to the gas station to buy some, whereupon I passed a state trooper who didn't even give me a second look (and this was in Ohio, where the cops actually care and are kind of assholes about their job). ^^; So, I mean, I don't suck; I've just never had a reason to go get it without a car, and even if I owned a car, I couldn't afford the insurance to drive it. (I love the 21st century.)
Now, for those of you who saw the entry last night and read it:
I was doing a bit more searching this morning, and it turns out the Tsingtao is actually the river that runs through the area, forming the deepest canyon in the world. That particular region was actually very far to the East of Samye, at a point known as Rainbow Falls / Hidden Falls (there are two different waterfall systems in the area). This didn't fit what I thought, so I reason several things: I was on a trek, as I so often was; or what I actually saw was more like this:
Either is very likely. In fact, upon searching on a map I found of the region of the canyon, there's actually a point on it labeled "Druk" (Wilie transliteration: 'brug. Translation: Dragon); could this have been my final resting place? Or am I just coming up with convenient stories, as I so often do? I don't know, but I'd like to at least go check it out. Unfortunately, this point is literally out in the middle of nowhere; a single trail crosses it between a very small town called Matok Dz and the aforementioned Falls, the closest of the two being a good 15 miles from it as the crow flies. This also doesn't account for the fact that the closest airport is farther from it than Samye itself, and that would put the foot-trail at a good forty miles if I take the one "jeepable" road the closest I can get to it (and this road is a good 275 miles at least). In other words, if I really want this, it's going to take me being almost willing to kill myself. :/