Speeding
Picture is of the world’s currently fastest electric car. The Shelby Aero EV can reach 208 MPH and can go from 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds. Beats the previous champion (Tesla Roadster) that did 0 to 60 in 3.9 and took 3.5 hours to refill (this one takes 10 minutes!!). Pretty damn cool.
Anyway, the first taste of going over the limit was when Mr. William Wong (remember him?) made me go on the freeway on our third Behind-the-Wheel lesson. I do believe it was the 101 (northbound) that we went on and it was under construction at the time (around Shoreline?). We had just gotten into the carpool lane and I just kept following traffic (or at least, the car in front of me) and he looks over and goes, “Hey, you’re going 80 MPH.” I think “Crap!” and then ask him if I should slow down, and he says, “No, you can go faster.”
He then proceeds to tell me how to avoid cops and radars and the like (switching lanes, constantly on the look out), and ever since, I have been doing just that. I recently made it from LA to “the boobs” part of San Diego in under an hour. Unfortunately, as I was going 100 downhill, two cops cars came in the opposite direction and I had to slow the hell down. After all, they can radar others and little after, I spotted a motorcycle cop turn out from the middle divider. Sneaky bastard. But it was okay, I hid behind a big car.
This past weekend, I sped up to LA (for the 2nd? time in a row) to celebrate CNY with the cousin. We ate this in celebration:
Actual picture not ours. But, we did manage to consume a dozen raw oysters (OMG yummy), pound of clams, two Alaskan king crab legs, half pound of shrimp, and a good amount of the basket of fries. Heaven. Absolutely delicious seafood heaven.
On an entirely different note, Richard and I finished the puzzle! We did have a slight scare when we found we were missing a piece.. Or more like, I freaked out entirely and he calmly found the piece lying on a dark spot on the puzzle. Oh well. Here it is in its entirety:
Sigh, Las Vegas - our heart’s hometown.
And now back to my paper on the comparison of the U.S./Norway and Jamaica/Vietnam. Double sigh.
