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trouble under a red moon

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2022.11.08

I left work early tonight (just past 17:00!) to get home in time to take the kids out to see the eclipse.

I had quite an experience getting home. My cycle commute is 12.5km each way. About 200m from home I felt a bit of give in my power train which was quite a shock on a month-old chain and cassette. Fifty meters from home the chain jammed briefly which again was quite a surprise because I'd not left any slack when installing it. A few pedals later the derailleur snapped off the bike. On reflection I believe it was about sixteen or seventeen years old - never mind that it spent nine of those years lashed to the ceiling of Mari's parents' place.

Anyway, the kids and I spent almost two hours watching the eclipse drag on. Couldn't get a proper exposure on any of three cameras but we had a good time.

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