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3:14 pm

Should the posts from today be sorted chronologically? Maybe it seems a little off that it goes backwards, but then again if you landed here from a social post you’d probably want to see the newest one that you clicked on? Who knows. Nobody reads this anyway.

Bikes

We did the 20-mile ride, and I’d say overall it went off very well. It’s challenging; the first few miles is rough but once we’re warmed up it feels fine, and the whole first half was smooth.

We stopped at a park at about 11 miles and ate our lunch, and then getting back on the trail it felt like we were completely starting over. But after about 15 minutes of that, we both got warmed up again and felt fine. Toward the very end, I started to feel muscle pain again, but this is probably because I am under-trained.

What a beautiful day for a ride, too. I wore a light jacket at the start and took it off maybe five miles in. It was great to be able to exercise the pannier bags that are normally stowed in zippered pouches on the trunk bags. No problem to carry a lunch and a jacket and my camera, bike lock, etc.

MXXN

After hearing about this from work I impulse-bought a bottle of MXXN, which they describe as “cannabis-infused non-alcoholic spirits.” Personally, I don’t think you can call something that is non-alcoholic a “spirit,” but whatever.

This is one of these products that walks through a 28-billion-dollar-sized loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill, which allows for cultivation of hemp cannabis and extraction of cannabinoids provided that the THC level specifically is below 0.3% (by weight, I think?)

I believe that the THC that you get out of hemp is “delta-8 THC” which is a lower potency than what you get in adult-use cannabis products (“delta-9 THC”), but in many ways it’s the same thing.

Anyway, we’re gonna find out, because I now have 750ml of “Kentucky bourbon”-flavored (well, allegedly) MXXN.

They say MXXN is pronounced “moon,” but I reject the notion that anyone can simply rewrite the rules of English pronunciation at a whim, so I’m going to pronounce it “mixin’,” which is what it should have been anyway.

Fire, good! Napster, bad!

I successfully talked the wife into doing a dinnertime fire pit, so this is happening. I might even bust out the hammocks. A fire and a hammock sounds pretty awesome, I gotta say.

We got some hot dogs and some macaroni salad, it’s going to be a good time!

6:38 am

Look and listen

From a recent Veritasium video, I discovered Posy. Watch this mesmerizing, fascinating, artful piece: Posy - Motion Extraction.

It’s Bandcamp Friday and I promised my picks, so here we go.

• Magdalene - 1997; yeah it’s vaporwave and I listen to too much of it honestly but this one slaps.

• Kaya Project - KP06: The Drum & Bass Files; Kaya Project is not a new name, but this compilation of DnB/jungle cuts is pretty sick.

• Blooy - Elegies to spring; random find off the Discover page. Let’s call it downbeat electronica? Inspired.

• DARK DESIRE & GORE - SIREN SONG; listen I’m not the one who makes the capitalization choices around here.

Go ride a bike

The wife and I are going to bike the whole Minuteman Bikeway today, out-and-back, which is about 20 miles. It’s basically entirely flat and it’s supposed to be beautiful weather today so there’s a lot to look forward to.

I’m on the fence about taking my camera, I’m not sure if I’ll see anything out there, but it could be a good experiment to see how it works with the trunk bag, especially if I secure my lock outside of the pack, which maybe I should do. I always take the lock even though we never use them.

Can I have a fire please?

We’re inching toward “fire pit season,” which is basically when it gets dark early enough that I can start, enjoy, and extinguish a fire before like 9pm, but it still isn’t so cold I want to come back inside.

I think one of these next few nights could be it. Tonight seems as good a night as any, if it isn’t too windy. We’ll see how the day goes.