The Cannondale store where I bought my bicycle, and serviced it every 1-3 months for years closed down since I last visited 2.5 months ago.
In Shock!
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Still Numb After All this Time…
10 days since I “crashed” with my bicycle, and part of my right face is still numb as if I am just out from a root canal fill at the dentist. So I decided to take a trip to the hospital.
Had a quick talk with the Doctor, who decided to take an X-ray. It took less than 3 minutes, and after another 5 minutes I was back with the Doctor looking at my X-rayed face.
The first thing that hit me was… No wonder I’m stupid, there’s no brain 😉
Turns out nothing is broken. The numbness is caused by a damaged nerve close to the cheek bone. Basically where the impact was last Wednseday morning.
Got tons of Medecine that I will skip most of. One is to take care of the side effects by another. Stupidity… Take this so you don’t get sick from taking this so you get well. How screwed up is that? I’m sticking with the Vitamin B12 supplement though (the red obes to the right). It can help with nerve damages (if there is a deficiency).
Another Week Completed
Another work week completed. Another 82.5 km bicycling done. Feels good. Dr. Feelgood.
Halfway through my bicycling I arrived at the office (the other half is, of course, on my way home). Around 7:15 in the morning. Just enough time to restart my computer to install some software updates before I head to the cafeteria for breakfast at 7:30. To my right I can see Mt. Fuji in the distance.
Soon 2 Months
I’ve been at my new job for soon 2 months. Almost every day I ride my bike for a total of 16.5 km round trip per day. So far, around 500 km in total. Only 39,575 km left to circle the world.
Found My Bicycle
Bad Boy was found today. Bad Boy is my bicycle. And, NO, I did not name it Bad Boy. Cannondale did.
I had apparently parked the bike in a no-parking zone for bicycles. They had dropped by in the morning and put a sticker on the bike asking the owner (me) to remove it. Then made another sweep in the afternoon and removed all bikes with a sticker on them. So the lesson learned here is that I have to use the lunch time to remove stickers if I ever park in that area again.
The pickup place for the bike was a 15 minutes walk from the office, see the map below. The guys working there, all men in the later half of their life, were very friendly and helpful. They also apologized for having to cut my lock. Well, if they were so sorry for that they should have thought about it before cutting it 😉 Just kidding, they just manage the returning of the bicycles, not the retrieval.
If you wonder where you can park a bicycle in Minato-ku, have a look the following maps. The middle left map is for the area around Shinagawa station. Blue street means no-parking zone. I parked my bike in the left-most blue street about midway down (or up, I guess).