Maxxis total failure at mile 23 outbound. Only had to walk back 10 miles to catch a bus. New tires already set to be delivered tomorrow at Outdoor Adventures in LC. They survived a whole 1,000 miles. instagram.com/p/B1uZ0gTnnP1/…

I use YouTube instructional videos all the time. I’ve used them to fix my overly complicated faucets and also to learn how to properly cook sliders (steamed on a bed of onions NATCH). I’ve used instructional vids to learn the rudiments of blacksmithing, dovetail joints... tons!

In a nod to strange concerns: can I get away with a brown Oxford for interviews in the coming year or am I stuck with the obligatory black. Thinking about doing brown with Tweed and khaki for all those exciting conferences...

I need help coming up with a Minecraft composition assignment. Anyone have any literature on this format of digital or multimodal practices?

New Brooks saddle and a three-day window to work on chapter 5 of the dissertation...feels like it's going to rain all weekend with power outages to erase those possible gains.

Pretty cool old building in La Union. I've been having fun finding new routes to work. instagram.com/p/B3npIdbnxig/…

Dude called my gravel bike a hybrid. I had to first apologize for my knee jerk response telling him to “shut his filthy mouth” and then rode his roadie-ass into the ground on Belvedere. #gravel #allroadtires #getdroppedchode

This is just about the frame of thinking I’ve needed lately for a digital rhetoric course.

Finally got the framework for my object-oriented ontology paper out of my head and into a Google doc. Now to finish my dissertation revisions so I can focus on that next challenge.

Best comment I have seen in years: active transportation is a privilege. Do you even know me? #carfree #hypothyroidism #vegetarian #noexcusenovember

Always snoozing. instagram.com/p/B5VSGXpn5lu/…

Dear @ElonMusk, When are you going to stop dallying with Mars Rockets & Hyperloops & Electric Trucks & Brain-Computer interfaces, and turn your ample resources to developing a Warp Drive? Sincerely, Space Geeks of the World

On a bus: three women wearing $100+ leather boots with trash bags on as rain panchos. One is hardeyeing my umbrella.

Personal goals: when Google Fit suggests that your 13 mile run wasn't good enough and you should lower your expectations. The world is done if 13 mile runs are not enough to be fit.

On a bus: listening to Hugh Laurie open.spotify.com/artist/5WM5zPO…

Important: advanced faculty need to remember students do not arrive knowing how to write papers, do lab work, or understand implicit field conventions. They arrive excited to *learn* these things. We must not suffer genesis amnesia about how long it takes to learn these habits.

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” -Hunter S. Thompson

Redshift Sports 2020 Dream Gravel Bike swee.ps/oenff_SKGPfy

went for a 11.1 mile Virtual Ride. strava.com/activities/660… #strava