iron butt

Jul. 4th, 2025 10:49 pm
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Part of an occasional series on superpowers. My superpowers are all Mystery Men level superpowers, but they're real.

I have what I'm told is called in motorcycling an Iron Butt.

Partly that's literally being able to sit for a long time with no side effects. I bicycled 3700 miles across the United States, averaging 8 hours a day in the saddle for a month and a half, and did not get any saddle sores.

But also with only a little bit of adjustment to my hydration and caffeination routine I can go 8 hours without a bathroom. This means when I drive the limiting factor on how far I go between stops is almost always the range of the vehicle I am driving. I rented a particularly fuel efficient car one time and drove it 450 miles without taking it out of gear. It hated this and kept trying to get me to take a coffee break. In less fuel-efficient cars sometimes I will refuel at a full service gas station and go two tankfuls between getting out of the car at all.

Being able to drive anywhere in my general region that much more quickly is a big factor in how I choose to make medium-distance trips. Beyond the question of how long the travel takes compared to a train or airplane, I'm sure I'd also find driving less enjoyable if I needed more stops.

I have actually rather a lot of superpowers, some inborn and some developed (or perhaps, I am told, earned). This one I suppose is some of each.

The last sound I will hear....

Jul. 1st, 2025 07:55 am
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So this weekend I drove up to Baitcon. Main roads were clogged so I took back roads up to NY state. And while driving I found something interesting:

I now know the last words I will ever hear, and the last words I will ever say.

It's kind of interesting, you wonder what the last thing you will hear, will it be comforting words from loved ones? Will your last words be those of wisdom or insight or something else?

"AbortABORTABORT!!!!!"

Yep, that's it. I heard it in my ears as I went to pass someone on a 2 lane road and they sped up. Saw the oncoming car, and realized I had a second to make the last decision of my life. The above is what I heard as I gunned the 928, and pulled in front of this guy a second before the car blew by me in the other lane.

At a speed of 100mph and 60mph that would have been the end. And I would have been at fault, no doubt about it. And everything would have gone dark. But apparently that did not happen and I think I'm here typing this. Maybe. Maybe I'm in the final stages of death somewhere on a NY side road and all of this is a hallucination.

It's like being in a bardo, a space between spaces. It was an amazing weekend, perfect camping weather, good food, good people, good times. Cool, nice breeze, good fire in the evening, big comfortable inflatable mattress. Everything was nice.

But it's Tuesday now and things have not winked out so I think I made it. But if I didn't that was an incredibly stupid thing to do, and I will never do something like that again. I still have a lot to live for and about 19 years left to live it. I'd rather enjoy those days, and the people I share them with.

So yeah, my last words may be to abort the bad decision I made except this time there is no way out. Except in this case maybe there was. Maybe I did pull it all out of the fire...

We shall see. On to the day!

Progress - Upon A Star

Jun. 29th, 2025 10:05 pm
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Stitching progress, Upon A Star from the book Cross Stitch In The Forest by PigeonCoop Designs.

I bought additional skeins of all 3 shades of blue, thus guaranteeing that I'll have enough of at least 1.

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