Nico M

Anyone concerned about e-bikes being “cheating” needs to ask themselves how much cheating is done by pushing a car’s gas pedal.

between a long ago busted knee that sometimes doesn’t like to behave, and the dutch winds, the ebike is the equalizer and i bike more, further, and i don’t need max assist, just a low setting boost.:D

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Is riding an e bike cheating?
No, it's just like doing 20 reps at a low weight instead of 10 at a heavy weight in the gym. You get the exercise anyway. AND you might be more likely to get on the bike in the first place.

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just deleted duolingo. i had long finished dutch, and honestly it was just a time suck and slowly less and less useful or fun.

Tired, and achy, from 10km walking in Antwerp, endless chocolate, two museums and a festival and a writer meet up.

I am having mild anxiety but it could just be chocolate overdose and flat utter exhaustion.

Antwerp daytrip.

ok an hour to do some book editing on vampy erotica romance, and then shower, then pass out for a solid sleep because the weekend of chocolate with writer adventurer bestie here starts.

diamond museum and chocolate museum in antwerp, then chocolate museum in amsterdam, and writer sunday meet up.

my bike is my car. coming from a city with next to no cycle infrastructure, i feel so grateful.

( randomly, i’ve been to charlotte! friends live there. nice airport too. downside: maybe the worst case of food poisoning we all ever got. that made for a wild flight home.:D )

we lived only 3 blocks from the school, 90 seconds bike ride so around age 8 he started biking it solo. now he’s in middle school at 12 and its a 5? min bike ride but the pool for gym was 15. they also biked to summer year end camp 20km with teachers.

its a gradual process.:D

i’m fortunate in that we do have extensive cycling infrastructure and in school they did comprehensive cycle safety and drivers being also well trained and also cyclists too, its not my fear. its being harassed by roving kids on fatbikes out to stir trouble that i worry

mine biked cross the city to a friend’s house and i almost chewed my fingers off with worry. he’s almost 13. But he handled it.

I’ll still worry when he’s 23, i’m sure.

week two of not eating mammalian ( no cow, pork), and the hives are vastly reduced and almost non existent.

In a couple weeks I might email my GP and ask if we can test for alpha gal. that would be one major health irk sorted.

Everything else is relatively managed, but the hives we were lost on.

i don’t miss the baby years. they were fun, but i like the years he can talk back, cook his own breakfast and do his own laundry.

i lost him at the playground so next time i put him in a vibrant t shirt to spot him. saw him and went “OH FOR….”

I could not have camoflaged him better. :D

The depriver of sleep is now taller than me.:D

The first 6 months i was a zombie, sleep deprived, aching, and i vaguely remember…anything.

It will go by fast. ( and then you stare at your pre teen and go “how did that ALL happen so fast?”)

Is it any wonder? The man has no brains for accountancy, business sense, logic, science, leadership, no wonder he bankrupted so many times and nicked money from charity.

He’s got the fiscal sense of a walnut. And people will still champion him.

maddeningly, the more i learn the more i have to stop, review, learn. one set of books for learning is great, and explanatory, the other meant for class and instructor use but i don’t have that, and a third ref for sentence structure.

I’ll conquer this yet.

Dutch reading practice.:D

I have to consider this rule too. :)

its almost as if outsourcing to ai and stakeholder oligarchs isa bad idea.

re last two reposts.

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for the first few years here, my son rode on a seat on the back of my bike. our conversations and giggles and singing were so much fun.:D

So this all feels like a hormone driven reverse puberty joke my brain is pulling on me. Id like the hot flashes. You can solve that with a popsicle or iced latte.

But no. I get jerk version of perimenopause. Fucking. Hell.

The anxiety in perimenopause is esp frustrating since i am in no way “ anxious”. I stared down dignitaries and secret service in high security events. For work. I worked at airport security ( security clearance documentation) on 9/11. I am not “ anxious. “. Aliens could land. Im cool as a cucumber.

anx spiked a bit but this time its dental, appt thurs.

solved with a unique combo of a small dose of benzo, a 1100m swim, and a double espresso.

eh. whatever works, right?

Also, i’m so over this winter weather like holy fuck make it STOP.

man at the rate my teeth randomly break now, regrow teeth, you say?

all of it is awesome.:D but teeth…..

( in toronto.)

Winters with my son when he was in a stroller we were frequently housebound due to uncleared sidewalks, access points, bus stops.