Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Lovely moonlit dog walk last night. Cool and dry.

I'm watching a news story about bus shortages in North Allegheny. But there's a twist, this is the district buses being used for private school kids, because that's how it works here.

Take your own fucking kids to private school. Taxpayer subsidizing your brat's transport and you have the nerve to complain. Fuck off.

Someone's put the absolutely brilliant soundtrack to Mike Leigh's 'Naked' on the 'tubes.

https://youtu.be/CcBIetAjxDo

No fucking way..

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/23/europe/russia-wagner-prigozhin-plane-crash-intl/index.html

All our host IPv4 addresses got changed in my absence. I was not told of the details in advance. All the firewall rules need to be updated. The changes have no propagated to DNS. Shit is fucked.

I come back from 10 days leave and all my wireless peripherals are dead. I have one charging cable. I'm very tempted to just go home.

I see the NYT is persistently running anti-China stories on the front page for the last week. They're very obviously being briefed.

I've been back in the US almost a week already. Tonight at 2030 EST marks 7 days since the hire car crept out of my dad's village for the 100km run to the airport. I hate how quickly the time melts away and it's suddenly a distant memory.

@HebrideanHecate This is so wrong. A woman I used to train with told me an average male athlete on bad form could beat her pretty easily in a crit, such are the physiological advantages. I could not believe it - she is the fittest person I know - but she said the numbers don't lie.

Took the dog out at sunnset for his walk. The air was slightly damp, the temperature perfect. The Cicadas were singing, people were out on their porches. I could not help but feel melancholy that in a few weeks I'll need a fleece, then a heavy coat and scarf.

Hope fedi friends in Socal and Mexico are doing okay. The floods look bad.

Thinking about how difficult it is to get help from practically any business now; it's all anti-worker practices. They don't want to hire anyone to help, so they use chatbots and outsource their actual meat workers to exploit the cheapest labour that can barely do the job.

The start of a 20hr journey home back on Wednesday. It was still very dark at 0630am in Malaga. This TAP Embraer 195 would take us to Lisbon, where we would catch a 787-10 to Newark, then finally an Embraer 170 to Pittsburgh.