I don’t use Strava…apart from the couple years or so after I did. By the way, I simply tried to search for after I began and stopped utilizing Strava, solely to seek out it was down:
Huh, I don’t a lot as look at Strava for a yr and after I lastly do it doesn’t even work. I suppose the universe is making an attempt to inform me one thing–and that one thing is “Don’t be a wanker.”
Anyway, the purpose is I don’t use Strava, nor do I observe my running a blog output. Nevertheless, on a whim I did look it up (gotta do one thing whereas Strava is down) and apparently in 2024 alone I’ve typed over 136,000 phrases into this web site. That’s a lotta bullshit! And it doesn’t even embody texts or emails or Grant Petersen fan fiction or any of the opposite stuff I write in the midst of the day that you just don’t even learn about–plus I’ve bought to fend off the wildlife:
So whereas it feels each disingenuous and vulgar to recommend that any side of curating this weblog is “work,” I need to nonetheless announce a brief and non permanent leave-taking of the type that, had been this really work, I’d check with as a “trip.”
However since this isn’t work, let’s simply say I’m fucking off for a bit, and that I’ll be again on the typewriter on Tuesday, September third. For the avoidance of doubt, that is 13.0.11.15.14 on the Mayan calendar, which seems suspiciously like an IP deal with, and can also be expressed thusly:
They should have had a hell of a time making out checks.
Talking of summer season, I could have talked about it briefly on the day, however June thirteenth marked the seventeenth yr since I began this weblog. That’s a very long time! However it doesn’t really feel prefer it. Like a body that’s been repeatedly stripped down and constructed up once more I believe this weblog’s readership has turned over a number of instances since then, however whether or not you’ve been studying it for awhile otherwise you simply got here throughout it as we speak after getting into the time period “Y-Foil porn” into a preferred search engine I’m grateful that you just’re right here. I’m additionally grateful for all of the individuals who have made monetary contributions to this weblog’s maintenance, which you are able to do both immediately, or else by way of Ko-fi when you’d wish to throw your cash away on a recurring month-to-month foundation. (Although after all you’re underneath no obligation to do both, and your devoted readership–and even your occasional skimming because the case could also be–is reward sufficient.)
So as soon as once more, thanks. Take pleasure in the remainder of your summer season, and will all of your rides be laterally stiff and vertically compliant, until you favor it the opposite means round. See you on 13.0.11.15.14.
Yours and so forth,
–Tan Tenovo
