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Tokyo, 2008.03.06

I hopped on my bike this morning, raring to get to the office early to catch up for the day I'd missed yesterday.

I was ~400 metres from home when I had a flat. Happily, I'd stopped to take some photos on the way, so I didn't get too far from home. I decided to turn around and walk it home rather than change the tire where I was.

I'd been riding on one of the tubes I'd patched, and was not entirely surprised that it had gone flat -- the patch had spanned two suspiciously parallel splits in the tube and I wasn't sure that the small patch would do the trick.

It turned into a long day at the office. I didn't leave 'til well over ten hours had passed; the icing on a bad week's cake.

rand()m quote

Capitalist production, therefore, only develops the techniques and the degree of combination of the social process of production by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the worker.

—Karl Marx