I dont use Stravaexcept for the couple years or so when I did. Incidentally, I just tried to look up when I started and stopped using Strava, only to find it was down:We are currently experiencing an outage. We appreciate your patience as we work towards a fix! Stay up-to-date here: https://t.co/BVRY6pIMDg Strava Support (@StravaSupport) August 14, 2024Huh, I dont so much as glance at Strava for a year and when I finally do it doesnt even work. I suppose the universe is trying to tell me somethingand that something is Dont be a wanker.Anyway, the point is I dont use Strava, nor do I track my blogging output. However, on a whim I did look it up (gotta do something while Strava is down) and apparently in 2024 alone Ive typed over 136,000 words into this website. Thats a lotta bullshit! And it doesnt even include texts or emails or Grant Petersen fan fiction or any of the other stuff I write in the course of the day that you dont even know aboutplus Ive got to fend off the wildlife:So while it feels both disingenuous and vulgar to suggest that any aspect of curating this blog is work, I must nevertheless announce a short and temporary leave-taking of the sort that, were this actually work, I might refer to as a vacation. But since this isnt work, lets just say Im fucking off for a bit, and that Ill be back at the typewriter on Tuesday, September 3rd. For the avoidance of doubt, this is 13.0.11.15.14 on the Mayan calendar, which looks suspiciously like an IP address, and is also expressed thusly:They must have had a hell of a time making out checks.Speaking of summer, I may have mentioned it briefly on the day, but June 13th marked the seventeenth year since I started this blog. Thats a long time! But it doesnt feel like it. Like a frame thats been repeatedly stripped down and built up again I suspect this blogs readership has turned over multiple times since then, but whether youve been reading it for awhile or you just came across it today after entering the term Y-Foil porn into a popular search engine I am grateful that youre here. Im also grateful for all the people who have made financial contributions to this blogs upkeep, which you can do either directly, or else via Ko-fi if youd like to throw your money away on a recurring monthly basis. (Though of course youre under no obligation to do either, and your devoted readershipor even your occasional skimming as the case may beis reward enough.)So once again, thank you. Enjoy the rest of your summer, and may all your rides be laterally stiff and vertically compliant, unless you prefer it the other way around. See you on 13.0.11.15.14.Yours and so forth,Tan Tenovo