Nico M

Cripes almighty we live in the dumbest timeline being led into war by a dude with the iq of a dishrag.
Fucking. Hell.

three weeks now of no mammalian proteins and the hives that tormented me are…nearly gone?

Testing next week for alpha-gal.

Downside, tho, the first whomp level anxiety week in almost 4 months.

The post-anx-spike hangover is a bastard.

gonna go edit. did get some work and study done.

Cv’s sent. Rejection coming in hot and fast just like Toronto all over again.

But “ we cant find people who wannna work!”

Fuck. I cant face another slog of this.

Our future on this planet is being determined by people who won’t have to live on it.

It makes me deeply sick to think that men who’ve spent their decades and have mere years left and won’t live to see the repercussions, are lobbing bombs like it’s a schoolyard bully game while everyone else suffers, dies and wonders whats next.

there’s no consequence for tromp, israel, russia.

the one up/one down dutch racks here everywhere miss the point that the classic upright dutch bike with panniers and crates is a fantastical pain in the ass to park in. And they’re the go-to.

fundies are a doomsday cult and you can never convince me otherwise.

one glance at your feed tells me all I need to know how catastrophically absurd you are.

just before dragoncon he had a video delighting in the coolness of lab gems so when he was at con, i was “hey…” and his reaction was so much fun and it honestly might be a career highlight.:D

“those ArE so cool! You cut them? wow!”

i just love his enthusiasm.

he’s pretty awesome.

#Green

the carbrains thinking cycling is ONLY a sport will outlive the heat death of the universe.

but then the carbrains also wail and gnash that cyclists go “too fast” and “wear lycra”.

David’s whole brain has several serious flaws.

Looks fine to me, rupert. All that empty car lane seems like a waste…./s.

They really would tear up the sidewalks too, if given a chance.

today planned just a 4km bike and 1km swim, now it’s a 12 km bike and 1km swim because i have a bunch of errands to run.

i still ache from the antwerp lost slog and all the museum stairs, and the ikea slog and stairs earlier this week.

ok, time to get myself together and get going.

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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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?”)