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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2016.11.17

One round trip on the TTC is one round too many for a dedicated cyclist; I don't know how people do it every day. The mysterious but frequent no-shows; the constant short-turns; the unannounced changes in routes and even closures of bus stops... I mean, how does a bus stop "close"? The shrugs from drivers about the chaos, the flippant responses from TTC's accounts on twitter, it's insanity.

Anyway, I've got my bike back. The expensive chain I bought last month was "unsalvageable". That'll learn me! The one on my bike now cost less than half what that one did. The bike shipped with a KMC X10 chain, but I'd been sold SRAM 1051 and 1091 chains at the local bike shop in the past two years. I'm definitely moving back next time.

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row