so, i finally cleared out the overposting at the deathtokoalas blog, which i'm posting a skeleton of for 2014 as a clean-up and put-aside step. i decided to just rip out the commentary altogether.

i had decided a few days ago that maybe the deathtokoalas blog could have this existentialist narrative attached to it, but what ended up happening is that following that existentialist narrative opened up into too much of a personal story, which is not the intent of that blog. that blog is intended to focus on media criticism. so, i just cut the commentary out altogether.

that side of the narrative is explored in the other three blogs, with varying levels of continuity.

so, i'm done with this now and am ready to move on to 2015.

https://deathtokoalas.blogspot.com/2014/

this was the elevation going from windsor to leamington yesterday, which is maybe why the wind felt so brisk.

and, that might explain why it felt faster on the way home, as well.

it seemed flat, but i guess there was a steady incline. i guessed as much moving home, on the other side of it.

interesting.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canadians-support-universal-basic-income

i strongly recall there being a lengthy writeup about my day biking to leamington posted at roughly this time, but it appears to have disappeared. while i have toyed with writing a review now, which would be far more comprehensive than this playlist, i'm ultimately not confident that i would recreate the feeling i had over this day in the same way that i did then, and any writeup at this time would consequently necessarily be lacking. so, i would prefer to leave a post here calling out the barbarism of censorship, so that google can experience the shame of facilitating the silencing of a harmless person telling a harmless story about biking to the store to locate estrogen.

it was a good day, and i'm glad i at least filmed it.

but, shame on the entity, organization and individual that deleted this post, and then didn't even have the decency and courage to tell me it was deleted. and, shame on google for allowing them to do it.

how far did i bike today?

i went there and i went back. so, that's 54.5*2 = 109 km. that's about 68 miles.

google says three hours, and maybe that might be true if literally biking at a constant rate, but i stopped repeatedly for hydration, which is a real-life adjustment. it took me about four hours in either direction.

i don't feel that this is the limit of what i could do on a bike over a day. rather, i'm sure i could do more. but, i worry about the safety of the roads. much further than leamington, and i'm going to have to take a freeway, and i don't want to.

i'm also rather sun burnt, and won't know the extent of it until tomorrow.

i got enough for 25 days. let's just hope there's a better answer in 25 days....

how do i feel after that? i think it'll hit me tomorrow...