as a life-long “why on earth would I do that to myself?" and "what are they running from?” sayer coasting on the metabolism and cholesterol levels of youth, I finally, when I don’t need one, have a real excuse to not like running

Worked my way up to a jogging a full mile over the past few weeks and, I guess my form was wrong, or my body wasn’t ready in spite of all the walking I do. I didn’t notice any one bad move but when I tried to repeat the mile jog a few days later and couldn’t make it a block.

By the weekend, I had to bail a mile into a simple walk, and I’ve paused walks and strength training for at least a week while whatever is going on calms down.

21: “Family Furnishings", by Alice Munro

The later, somewhat darker, more explicitly autobiographical half of Munro’s anthologies of short stories.

Munro’s characters tend to (I know this reads like a horoscope) move on from situations for the next thing without a plan, or to be a little selfish before getting back to being serious, if they ever do. She’s always putting characters on trains, or in cars, or on buses.

Previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110531577683425679, https://mastodon.social/@gravely/112440630402434626

two “fun facts" (my kid picked up that phrase and has been using it arbitrarily, so now I do)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble “Barnes Dances”

I forgot David Byrne wrote about biking, so now that is is on the list of shit to read http://davidbyrne.com/explore/bicycle-diaries/about

texts like this are like the inverse of gell-mann amnesia, and the best ones (which this is? Idk I’m not that well read to say!) do so w/o degrading into the easier and tedious "we’re all failing and need to do better” conference keynote gimmick simulation of it.

anyway, by which I mean, you read about an area of focus in another field and see the author clearly knows what they are talking about and moreover that the grievances they have align w/ the same grievances you have in your own field

20th book of 2024: “Killed by a Traffic Engineer”, by Wes Marshall ( https://www.killedbyatrafficengineer.com).

Lots of people read this last year when Marshall published it and the title was so catchy, I thought about it after the last few accidents in SF, which made me think I should go back and actually read it.

80+ three page ideas, lots of overlap with the incident management side of my day job, casually written (if a little too pop, even, but I guess that’s ok).

Every field is like this, it seems.

“daddy I thought we were supposed to be playing legos?”

“this is playing legos!”

batman was not impressed.

inspired but in no way meeting the bar set by the amazingly incredible early girl tomato marg I had at the pizza, bagel, and beer fest last weekend

😬 a lil’ nervous, I have an appointment with a stylist this afternoon, my first since February 2020, when I was forced to end years of an every-three-weeks wash and style scissor-cut booking near the office (a luxury). I, eventually started cutting my own.

I found “very short” to be pretty easy to DIY, but decided to let it go nearly two years ago and started growing it out long, w/ DIY maintenance.

6 months in: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109928979027718696

another year in (2 months ago): https://mastodon.social/@gravely/112696371678091310

check it out, shadows of the tower in the fog

also the interior panels seem to have a much fresher coat of orange paint than what we typically see from the rest of the city