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 search out it was down:

Huh, I don’t a lot as look at Strava for a 12 months and once 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. 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 recommend that any facet of curating this weblog is “work,” I have to however announce a brief and non permanent leave-taking of the kind that, have 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 deal with, and can be expressed thusly:

They will need to 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 12 months 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 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 right this moment after getting 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 in case you’d prefer 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. Get pleasure from the remainder of your summer season, and will all of your rides be laterally stiff and vertically compliant, until you like it the opposite manner round. See you on 13.0.11.15.14.

Yours and so forth,

–Tan Tenovo