the GOT bike

The world and Holland Glen are melting! ...comes in increments of eleven seconds. Decades ago, I started entering ninety seconds on a microwave keypad with the logic that two pad strikes were more efficient than the three for 1:30. Makes sense, right? This morphed into entering ninety-nine seconds as the longest possible time with only two digits, and I noticed how much more quickly I could depress the same key twice without having to move my finger. For the last couple years, I've been using a microwave for 11, 22, 33,...88, or 99 seconds. I like noticing, and thinking about what I notice. The possible downside to that, in addition to others using phrases like "think too much", is that I notice correlations, and that can make me a bit superstitious. "I did this thing, and it caused this unrelated thing," as thinking is a cardinal sin for an atheist, and yes, I'm bad at adhering to the tenets of that religion(1). For example, in 2022, I started the year with...