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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2022.09.16

It's so, so nice to ride a bike where the chain isn't making noise and skipping all over the place. I rode the old beast into the train station and embarked on what turned out to be a hugely delayed commute* and it shifted nicely and rode smoothly. Hooray!

*It turned out that a lengthy delay on the Yamamote loop line caused by two gaijin couples running around on the tracks. They were allegedly drunk.

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Over the long term the only alternative to Risk Management is Crisis Management. Crisis Management is much more embarrassing, expensive, and time consuming.

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