I finally have Cory Doctorow’s latest from the library, the third (and final?) in his recent series Red Team Blues, called Picks and Shovels, and his books are just catnip to me lately. His observation and love of both ethical comportment/pro-user regulation and of Computer is just so ridiculously soothing to read. Library book pages are different than paper, but damn this was just 96 (library) pages for the PROLOGUE. I am so happy that this will be a lonnnngg and chewy journey with this book.

I’ve been spending a lot of time on the triathlon subreddit, trying to learn and be part of the community and keep abreast of what’s happening, and aside from the overgliders (mostly kidding), there is so much commonality in this sport and it’s really wonderful to all encourage each other! I’m doing a race tomorrow and while it isn’t my “A” race for the season, I’m quite excited and hopeful for a good-for-me result!

We paid some landscape types to cut and haul away all the blackberries, and now the onus is on us!! to actually!!!! keep them from getting out of hand again! My wife and I (we got married a few months ago :)) have been getting really fired up about making the outdoor space nice, so of course today on a national holiday (no kings, no masters, our country is not good right now) we are getting after it!

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

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!

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!