Missing social media tbh! I just don’t want to go back to what the options are. I want to NOT be aware of What’s Going On, because I’ll hear about the really important shit and the play by plays are “simply none of my business,” as a friend says!! But the thing is, I have much stupid nonsense to say. Maybe I’ll just keep editing one page on here for the truly banal stuff, and you can “comment” on it by emailing me. This will never happen lmao.

I ran the half marathon!! It was good as hell!! The Portland (half) Marathon course was great like SO great, our run club made signs for us, there was a silly little app, from which you could send a personalized link to your peeps, who could then leave you messages that would be read out to you live by a robot which was so much more touching than it sounds!! I am feeling BEAT, UP by the race, but mentally I felt just easy breezy about the number of miles. Have to be able to handle it physically and mentally! My body was over it but I was just really enjoying the passing of distance, trying to catch up to myself, etc. a really great race.

Tomorrow, I run a half marathon, which is overall less time of an effort than the races I did over the summer, but it’s just one thing, for like two and a half hours! Wish me luck ahhhh I am Nervous

you can do things you’re not good at

but if you practice and Try, you’ll get better! I am a self described very clumsy person and I have been going to some ballet classes for absolute beginners, and it’s amazing to figure out one small physical thing to understand this lumbering meat sack I ambulate in a little bit better. Aesthetic strength, focus and power, all on counts of 8!

hash tag neocities stan

ok I am starting to take the advice about neocities (just browse for a while first! like a month or two!) and taking some notes for myself to make stuff later and oh my god, this is such a neat place. I love that one of the core tenets of neocities seems to be that it’s ok to have broken stuff! please look at ribo.zone and DON’T SKIP THE MICROSCOPY!!!

20 minutes later, I have just browsed and browsed and learned and gotten so thoughtful about html tags, indie web jams, free layouts, weird pages with “old” looking structure… oh my goodness I want to live in neocities. or maybe just in ^^^ that person’s site!

I am not doing that daily shit because it feels super artificial!!! I just privately saved so much emotional stuff from cohost and I’m going to miss it so much. Next up, personal website stuff and probably migrating off WP!

In the last few years , I have found a new community in Burning Man, which is vibrant, full of artists, nearly the same number of techies, and a focus on community-secured hedonism that I think is amazing. That probably sounds bonkers, and it feels like something that would be great to talk about in-person! Generally, the community sets and regulates its own rules, because distrust of institutional authority in this set is HIGH, all the while upholding internal structures of safety and community self-management. The art and commentary and work that folks make and do for each other and the world is inestimable! This may not be what you expect to hear about burners!

it feels cool to be strong

I’ve been doing triathlons for 18mo and I continue to increase the intensity of the training, which enables the longer races, the surface “impressive” part. And it is! But the point of it all is the regular training and physical work, which will just keep me a little healthier for a little longer, for the more “preventable” stuff. Maybe. The races are the reward! The work, like so many things, is practically unrelated to the visible effect of the training.

And it becomes a true pleasure! Every day but Thursday I get a workout in (usually) before I begin my day, and the energy ya get, ironically, from expending a LOT, is now something I mentally and emotionally depend on for my workday.

A field of dahlias under a beautiful morning sky, cloudy enough to catch a lot of golden rays

Instead of writing about tech on Saturdays, I’ll post one picture a week. This was from the Dahlia Fest in Canby, OR, where I did a 5k as a kind of run test, and I exceeded my hopes and I’m very proud of myself. And god aren’t these gorgeous!!!!!

I recently started up a new game of Hollow Knight. I’ve got hundreds of hours in this game so I don’t expect to be surprised, and yet! it is still a genuine surprise at how good the movement feels, and knowing (mostly) the story, seeing the breadcrumbs laid down at various points has a really different tone and meaning. Truly I think it is the best of its genre.

I have heard some complaints, some save points are too far away from bosses, but I can only think of one where it’s more than a couple rooms away, which imo serves as a good refresher for your motions and actions, as well as a way to slurp up some more juice for later actions. The complaints I do think are valid are related to needing to use charms to auto pick up money.. that should just be in the game, I agree.