I don’t use Strava…apart 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 search 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 observe 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 embody texts or emails or Grant Petersen fan fiction or any of the opposite stuff I write in the middle of the day that you just don’t even find out 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, have been this truly work, I’d seek advice from 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 handle, and can also be expressed thusly:
They should have had a hell of a time making out checks.
Talking of summer time, 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 occasions since then, however whether or not you’ve been studying it for awhile otherwise you simply got here throughout it right this moment after coming into the time period “Y-Foil porn” into a well-liked 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 instantly, or else by way of Ko-fi in the event you’d prefer to throw your cash away on a recurring month-to-month foundation. (Although after all 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. Take pleasure in the remainder of your summer time, 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
