You know, maybe Jesus DID take the wheel. How can we know?

Ha! Normally I'm fairly indifferent to my Scottish ancestry—the family's been over in the Americas for hundreds of years now, so it's not like I have any real claim on it. But today I'm suddenly feeling quite proud of it. Fancy that.

This is where I was run down by the hit and run driver. 36 titanium implants and a year and half of recovery later I didn't feel anything visiting it again; it's just a place where something shitty happened, no more. In the end, that's a relief since I intend to begin commuting this way again.

Well if it helps assuage your ‘heartbreak,’ I’m midway through “When the Moon…” and cackling like madman.

Red light runner where the Duwamish crosses Marginal. Last thing I saw in the headlight glare was a head popping up, presumably from their phone.

Recovery's gone pretty well overall, though I doubt I'll ever walk without some pain. I'm at least riding again on the rebuilt bike thankfully.

It doesn't seem to record mine on January 05, 2024 on West Marginal. Destroyed my bike, broke my pelvis, snapped my left femur, broke left tibia and fibula into 7 pieces and exploded my right femur's condyle. But it took the SPD five months to contact me, so no real surprise. Crickets since.

It just boggles my mind that people reflexively fear and hate all taxation. Civilization is expensive! And it can only be paid for on the installment plan.

I don't resent paying my fair share of taxes…I resent paying them when the rich won't.

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This was a ride from Spokane on the eastern edge back to Seattle on the west side. of the state Grand Coulee Dam is on the much drier east side of the Cascades. Desert scrub, multiple mountain ranges, the Palouse, rainforests, volcanoes, the Scablands, Washington s geography is just bonkers.

That would be Washington state, U.S.A.

That man has dementia.

At more the twice the height of most the rest of the Cascades, Rainier generates its own weather and is generally shrouded in clouds; a view like this isn't common until late summer when the region dries out.

Fun fact, Rainier's lenticular clouds are a likely source of modern day UFO sightings.