So, regarding NaNoWriMo, what exactly is a novel? Wordnik has this to say:

A fictitious prose narrative or tale, involving some plot of more or less intricacy, and aiming to present a picture of real life in the historical period and society to which the persons, manners, and modes of speech, as well as the scenery and surroundings, are supposed to belong.

That makes mud look like a clear substance. A better definition probably comes from the characterization of pornography by Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart:

I know it when I see it.

Do I even want to write a novel? I suppose when someone asks themselve this question, probably not. Don’t even attempt NaNoWriMo unless there’s no doubt in your mind you can do this. On the contrary, you must do this. No less than full dedication can pull you through.

Well, that rules me out. Don’t let this stop you.

I did my part to beat the pandemic. Now vaccinated against COVID-19 virus, though only for 3 months, and with 63 percent certainty I’m not infecting others in close contact, starting 2 weeks from now, and slowly dropping to zero percent. 💉😷🦠🤧📉 What a world we live in!

I suppose as long as I’m still worried about the result rather than enjoying the process, I can’t but be patient until my inner voice shuts the h*$!l up. Until it does, I should only draw when I feel like drawing, not to fulfill some imagined daily duty to draw 🎨 Inktober Fail.

My solution to people posting status updates only is to unsubscribe. If even then my timeline is filled up with them, I’ll stop visiting the timeline. No Javascript solution for me, since status updates as messages are a symptom of bad social network design.

I went away for quite some hours today, and my cats wanted to hang out with me, on my lap, to show their love. Unfortunately, they’re big cats and my lap has limited space available. I guess I should lie down to offer more “human surface” for them 🐱

I donated to the Commander X16 project, trying to get the spiritual successor of the Commodore 8-bit line of computers off the ground. See their gofund-me page, or the 8-bit guy’s latest YT Video.

Contemplating what to do with athletes who want to compete recreational in marathons, triathlons and ultras, yet don’t get the support they pay their T&F club a fee for. I suppose they better look for a personal coach, since we’ve been without a coach for many years now 🏃‍♂️

Watching a 2 years old YT video interviewing Ebon Upton of Raspberry PI fame.

Yesterday our small scale running race (165 🏃‍♀️🏃, well-organized, 2x per year) around Nijkerk, the Netherlands, was accompanied by fanfare, courtesy of Concordia Nijkerkerveen. They were nice enough to walk us from the parking lot to the start, a few hundreds meters away.

I know when we had weeks old kittens around the house, we never watched television. Why would we; we had all the entertainment we needed!

Perhaps it’s good I haven’t much of the modern conveniences people have stuffed their homes with and now can’t afford the energy consumption.

I perhaps should mention that last Sunday I kinda ruined my half marathon race, yet got a boost in comfidence by outdoing myself with short bursts of speed during the race. With proper training I could see myself beating my PR set 20 years ago in my 40s, proving 60 isn’t old 🏃

Why does a heroic pose require a constipated look?

Moreover, moreover, it’s the first of October…

While both books and points of interest (aka check-ins) are interesting features of MB, what about daily quotes?

Silly idea in pixel art 🎨 for a Strava profile pic. I won’t be using it, though.
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Aside from the clear spelling error.

Well, the idea of unassuming art appeals to me. While big statements are often impressive, they are often not entirely true (spin) or downright lies. I prefer to make my own informed decissions, thank you very much, even if that means I’m less well-informed about the world.

Tomorrow I’ll be attempting to run 🏃 my long run not only on the usual empty stomach and only tap water, but also on slightly depleted glycogen stores, trying to “touch the wall on purpose”, deal with it while running. So today I’ll be fasting, doing the reverse of CH stacking.

And the struggle continues. Only 7 days left for Inktober Classic and only a poor observational skill to help me through 31 drawings from direct observation. It won’t be pretty, nor (even remotely) compete with established pen artists on Instagram, if I even knew who they were. 🎨

Most of you have probably looked at rainbows, only some of you might have seen a rainbow.

Walter Lewin in his lecture with physics students in 2002, explaining what rainbows 🌈 truly are, giving us more appreciation than the mere beauty of them.