It’s been a minute and I have some catching up to do.
I’ve been chugging away on the Crowbar Handbook which you can read as I write each section (recent sections include How to Ditch Your Stuff, What to Do About Work, and Eat Well for Less).
I had a separate email subscription to that, but it stopped working because the service I use changed without telling me, which pissed me off and made me want to set up a manually typeset print newsletter instead, out of spite.
Since my last update I rode out the coldest winter in Alaska on record, which was hard and I definitely got SAD because I just rawdogged it, then went down to the lower 48 and did another bikepacking trip (800mi from the Eastern Sierra to Oregon again), had shenanigans out in the desert, saw lots of friends and made new ones, sold my motorcycle, got stranded in Barstow for 23hrs and 53 minutes, spent a week outside Taos living the #earthship lifestyle, and I just got back to Alaska for mosqui^H^H^H^H^ building season aka summer. It’s good to be reunited with my gf and the dogs. Like this one:
A shot from day one of the ride:
Can’t stop here…
Apropos of nothing, here’s a word facepunch. Happy weekend!
“Hurrying is a drug. It helps people keep themselves from noticing just how much their lives suck. If they stop rushing around, they might have to deal with the appalling mess they and industrial society have jointly made of their lives, and that's terrifying because it means they might have to change.” ~John Michael Greer