I don’t use Strava…aside from the couple years or so once I did. By the way, I simply tried to search for once 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 once I lastly do it doesn’t even work. I suppose the universe is attempting 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 monitor my running a blog output. Nonetheless, 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 embrace texts or emails or Grant Petersen fan fiction or any of the opposite stuff I write in the middle of the day that you simply don’t even learn about–plus I’ve obtained to fend off the wildlife:
So whereas it feels each disingenuous and vulgar to counsel that any side of curating this weblog is “work,” I need to however announce a brief and short-term leave-taking of the kind that, had been this truly work, I would 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 appears to be like suspiciously like an IP handle, and can also be expressed thusly:
They should have had a hell of a time making out checks.
Talking of summer season, I’ll 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! Nevertheless it doesn’t really feel prefer it. Like a body that’s been repeatedly stripped down and constructed up once more I think this weblog’s readership has turned over a number of occasions since then, however whether or not you’ve been studying it for awhile otherwise you simply got here throughout it at this time after coming into the time period “Y-Foil porn” into a well-liked search engine I’m grateful that you simply’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 for those who’d wish to throw your cash away on a recurring month-to-month foundation. (Although in fact you’re below 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. Get pleasure from the remainder of your summer season, and should all of your rides be laterally stiff and vertically compliant, except you favor it the opposite method round. See you on 13.0.11.15.14.
Yours and so forth,
–Tan Tenovo