The Annual Giving Of The Thanks

Pleased American Thanksgiving everyone!

If you happen to’re studying this from one other nation, American Thanksgiving is the day on which we feast upon turkey and different hearty foodstuffs as a way to fortify ourselves for a full frontal assault on the vacation purchasing season.

Additionally, American Thanksgiving shouldn’t be confused with Canadian Thanksgiving, which takes place like a month earlier so the individuals up there don’t freeze to dying:

In Canada, Thanksgiving is tied to the autumn harvest season, which arrives earlier because of the nation’s colder local weather. In consequence, the Canadian Parliament set the vacation for the second Monday in October again in 1957, so the climate remains to be excellent for out of doors celebrations and journey. 

Boy, these Canadians are thoughtful to a fault, aren’t they?

I for one have a lot for which to present thanks, and so as to take action I can be absent from this weblog till this coming Monday, December 1st, at which level I’ll resume the rampant half-assery to which you’ve turn into accustomed. Within the meantime, I’d additionally like to present due to Basic Cycle for including this particular bicycle to their museum:

Was the racing bicycle perfected at across the flip of the twenty first century? One may make a reasonably compelling argument that it was…or simply let the bicycles converse for themselves.

Additionally, in worldwide information, The New York Instances has now coated the saga of maximum leisure bike owner Sofiane Sehili:

Right here he’s, recreating within the excessive style for which he’s well-known:

And hey, would you take a look at that?

Effectively whaddya know?

Anyway, Sehili says he knew he wouldn’t be capable to sneak throughout the border, however he needed to attempt it anyway:

“In order that’s once I determined to attempt to see if I may cross the border someplace else, illegally. I used to be satisfied I might fail, as a result of there’s loads of surveillance in China, and these are two superpowers which might be cautious of one another. I used to be not anticipating there to be a gap that I’d be capable to sneak by. However I needed to attempt.”

In any case, what’s the choice: return residence and get a job? NO THANKS! Certain, there could also be a lot nicer locations to spend a month than a Russian jail, however hey, it beats working:

“There have been all types of criminals there. One was there for stabbing somebody, one other for statutory rape. There have been a number of small-time drug-dealers, a thief, and somebody in for corruption. There have been two veterans from Ukraine — and one man who was there for not having a allow for his gun.

“Being a overseas man, and never a felony, you’re on the backside of the ladder. You’re the final man to have the ability to do something within the cell. They had been just about all fairly short-tempered, so that you needed to be very cautious about what you’d do.

Hmmm, sounds precisely just like the D prepare.

As for ultra-recreational biking trip occasions, Sehili says they’re truly getting safer, since they was once about not sleeping, however now they’re merely about sneaking throughout worldwide borders and presumably getting jailed and even shot on sight:

In flip, he pushes in opposition to the notion that ultracycling occasions are rising riskier, as contributors search to shave hours off current data, and even break new floor.

“Really, I believe it’s the opposite means round,” Sehili solutions. “After I bought into the game, sleep deprivation was the massive issue — we had been making an attempt to get the least sleep attainable. However then, in some unspecified time in the future, we realised that in case you sleep a certain quantity then you definitely’re going to be quicker and catch the those who didn’t sleep. Within the races that last more than 5 days, the winners are those that cease. So it most likely is getting safer.”

So mainly he’s discovered that the race is received in mattress, but it surely’s misplaced in jail.

And with that, I bid you farewell. Have a terrific Thanksgiving, experience secure, and I’ll see you again right here on Monday.

XOXO,

–Tan Tenovo