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cycling

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2005.06.27

I keep track of the hours I work in my own spread sheet at the office. This is an important way of keeping track of what I'm doing at the office in case of dispute at some point down the road. And dispute happens.

Then it occurred to me that I could track the use of my bike in a similar fashion as a sorof personal-milepost-thing. As of today, I've cycled every day in the past five weeks except for two days. In that time, I've saved $100 in TTC fares (only $700 more and the bike will have paid for itself! Ahaha!) and cycled more than 500 kilometres, if I just count the commute and not the side trips, pleasure jaunts, and errand runs.

rand()m quote

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov