I suppose I’ve decided not to run the marathon in eight days from when I write this. Too much has gone wrong in the past four weeks that haven’t yet been righted, not in the least this nasty cold I caught two weeks ago and just keeps buggering on.
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Novel

Tell me a story, one you haven’t told me before and can be read in a book or any medium stories are told in. Make it a good story I can get lost in.
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Tire

It delivers a cushioned ride after so much exhaustion that a towel was thrown.
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Rough ideas are perhaps wishy-washy, trite, or even dead wrong. The text is also in the alt attribute.

Barrel

Some people like to enter a scene unannounced for dramatic effect, to draw attention to themselves. It inevitably results in a lot of eye rolling and sighs. It all looks so natural on TV, but in real life, not so much.
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Since this month I’m doing ballpoint sketches in my notebook, it makes only sense to upload a selfie in a similar style.
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Telling a joke-no-joke

An 😇 child 😭ing after slipping over a 🍌 peel isn’t funny; it’s almost banal, if not 😱ing for 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 However, a famous 🤑 bloke doing the same thing, now, that’s 🤣 ←the 😭ing. Unless, unless, you happen to be 🤑 and ♂️
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Franchise

As the sole survivor of a planetary accident, you’ve gotta accessorize and establish a brand before expanding into broader ventures.
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Apple is actively maintaining two versions of their OSes, probably because the newest, 16, isn’t ready for general use I guess. So I’ll stick to version 15 in the meantime. Hope they in Cupertino have their stuff in order soon. 📱

Aluminium

Very energy intensive to make, cheap enough for 500 kg on average per person per year to be consumed in foil, cans, cars, airplanes, and what not. It’s so reactive, that it forms a dull layer of oxide on its surface almost immediately, in turn pretty inert.
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If I look at two recent races, which were under very unfavorable circumstances (flu vaccination, partial recovery from previous race) common sense tells me to go for a marathon in four hours, however, my average pace and heart rate tells me to go for 3h:45'. I need a coach! 🏃‍♂️

Leave

With all this financial brouhaha going on in my life, the urge to let go of my sanity is rising rapidly. So what to ditch and what to keep? Since I’m likely not the only one, lay-offs are inevitable. First-world problems, for certain. Why can’t that Russian idiot go?
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Adjust

With the falling of the leaves I had to turn on the heat in my home. It wasn’t as carefree as in yesteryears, because fuel prices have risen spectacularly, especially of natural gas. I blame Russia.
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Something I haven’t seen mentioned is that if micro∙blog isn’t big enough for you, you can go hunting for likeminded people in the Fediverse, so outside our community. The disadvantage is that the wider probably isn’t as well moderated as the Timeline of the blogging platform.

Suspicion

Isn’t it rather odd that a well-dressed man has a third class train ticket in a first class compartment, lending money from a passenger for the surcharge? He obviously is not to be trusted…
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Cathode Ray Tube Display

As Adrian Black often explains on his retro computer YouTube channel, cathode ray tubes are disposables, meaning they wear with use. Either they are dim or don’t work at all, but can be revived sometimes, making Adrian exclaim with enthusiasm.
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The guys from the Connected Podcast seem to have made up their minds. Twitter is no longer fun, and if matters worsen even more than they’ve already in the past week, no Mastodon, no micro∙blog for them. They’ll just abandon social media altogether. We will see.

While I didn’t finish Inktober, I seem to do better with microblogvember, creating ballpoint sketches. Maybe it’s because the “owner” of Inktober is so onerous, claiming ownership (with copyright claims) over what was a community project to begin with.

Yes Minister

A British political satire sitcom aired on BBC2 from 1980 to 1984. It follows the ministerial career of Jim Hacker in his struggle to govern in opposition of a conservative civil service, personified by permanent secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby.
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Certain

There seem to be no absolutes in the world we inhabit.
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