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Sound of Thunder

was not fictions

this is f'n crazy bat

Feb - not bad
24 active days

Total Distance 343 mi
14mi less than last month

Total Time 35h 33m
4h less than last month

Pretty good for a short month - even if it was a long short month.

Check out my activity on Strava: https://strava.app.link/6KR1FEWxH4

Posting that thinking about it and it came up somewhere else and it was on the clipboard and i plunked it down there.

Now here we are below the fold.

The real shit can happen.

TOTALLY LOVING HOW EVERYTHING IS ALL ABOUT WASHING YOUR FUCKING HANDS

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Feels vindicating. I did pop back on twitter this weekend. Got new phone finally, app transfered over and well yeah i clicked, scrolled a bit and wondered what I saw in it. I'll probably be back. Worked with an infectious disease doc/current fellow on some biofilm experiments and we talked about the futility and false sense of security that hand sanitizer gives people. They don't use it except in very rare situations for all the same reasons I don't like it. And well it is their job. Funny that.

I'm not smug or feeling superior about it - it just is - and feel this is a safe place to vent and point out that i was a bit on the leading edge of stuff.

Other good advice, if you have someone you love that is in the target, high risk demographic, you should stay away from them and make sure only certified professionals deal with them to reduce the risk of spreading the disease. What is better than hand washing? Not going out of your house.

Lots and LOTS of talk right now. Things are f'n crazy.

Is all that shit in Italy really happening? Is that gonna be here soon? Is China really settling down or are they just waiting for the next wave?

Is this Covid-19 really the big one?

Well it is super strange to have a phone at 79% battery after being 100% leaving the house this morning. Been so long since that, well I dunno this is just crazy.

Not gonna bore anyone with the details of how my overthinking brain actually wound up where I am. BUT

I will say Bluetooth is a motherfucker. NEW SHIT DOESN'T WORK WITH OLD SHIT

AKA new phone can't pair with car, old phone could, new? Nope. Garmin? Pair? Nope - well it can try - enough to do the handshake but connect disconnect connect disconnect. Not enough to upload data. This will be interesting.

Also the lack of 3.5mm jack... went with waterpoof and faster/better/newer but now my headphones won't work. Guess I was getting to comfortable riding with stuff in my ears.

So new phone is awesome - takes better photos but can't connect with my other shit.

and i don't have a case yet (ordered) because they didn't have anything but the most minimalist at crazy $ or MONSTER size ones for decent money but monster syze is too much (almost want to make a dick joke here but better not)

Had an awesome MTB ride with Dirt Church crew down at Burlingame. Haven't been there since pre-riding for the KOB with Nate and Syl on my Klein when I had ZERO fun and hated pretty much every minute of the ride we weren't on the road.

Had some of the MOST fun on sunday. Short ride too. Felt fresh and awesome.

BUT man, Saturday? I was fucking WRECKED. So. Tired. Like red eye disfunctional exhausted. Just like the last week. Rallied and rode and drank more coffee on sunday and was fine.

i guess this is suggesting that I need to cut back on coffee so when i do cut back on coffee (saturdays) I 'm not a disfunctional useless lunatic.

fortunately there was a bunch of stuff cancelled today so I've not gotten up out of my desk chair more than 2x all day. My mental bandwidth was maxed out and buffer overrun was making me grumpy and irritable...

Writing this is a sort of reset button.

The week really has been much better starting off than last week. Still tons of looming shit that is precarious and unknown and potentially fucking disasterous.

But I guess I'll deal with that when it happens and get through what is next first and whatever follows is what follows.

Amor Fati Motherfuckers!

Rode the monster truck to work in prep for dirty smackdown tonight. But kind of curious as to what the road fitness is like right now. Also, looking forward to hitting the CX trails on this freak bike. Not looking forward to trying to keep up on the road sections. BUT can't be much worse than the lightly geared singlespeed crocket. But that still has the paper thin Hutch tires on it and last time I rode those on the Dirty Smackdown it had to get plugged and limped home.

Need to pull out the black blue and get it back into road shape. Or the Klein. The Q Pro just needs the bottle cage back on.

OR get the fork from Burke and get the Paramount back in form.

OR

plenty of options but one that worked today was the big bike.

Also - if i'm not careful it'll be 5:20 and I'll have missed the bike ride completely.

Which means although I don't have to leave for another 40 min if I don't start getting shit together and getting through the daily time to leave list I won't make it...

so...

(there were a few interruptions - probably easy to tell - also my brain is still overloaded - meaning it won't take much to generate a new word dump -kind of like my salad yesterday - sat around at room temp with uncured turkey cold cuts in lettuce until 5pm when i put dressing on it and ate it - not dead yet!)

one foot in front of the other and happy birthday to all the amazing people with birthdays on this day in March.

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