riding the big circle, beaches, typhoons, migrants and snacks
It never ceases to amaze me how utterly exhausted i get sitting behind a desk for 8 hours. It's only Monday and i am already done. I need a vacation so bad. I have taken 6 days off all year and have 12 days of annual leave banked, which i want to carry over 10 of them to next year for my trip to Aotearoa, so 2024 i have two more long weekends to
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I love hearing about your treks!
Do I need to airmail you soy sauce and chili from Spokane, Washington so you can eat Chinese food in Taiwan?
What if.... everyone had a job, but we all only worked 25-30 hours a week?
Think how many more jobs there would be if everyone had some money AND some freetime that wasn't just recovering from making money?
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When i asked some colleagues where i can buy some of this stuff they suggested getting it online, but that just seems ridiculous to order soy sauce via a drop shipper that you can just buy from any 99 Ranch in the US or T&T in Canada! I keep thinking one day i'll find some mom'n'pop store that has the stuff i'm looking for, but so far no luck. Meanwhile i keep trying new/different sauces, which are forever not the thing i want but at least it's interesting? I guess?
Gosh i wish part-time work was more of a thing. I feel like the labor movement crapped out at 40 hours, they should've shot for 30! 5x 6 hour days would optimize for the "on" hours at work while leaving more family time, or 4x 7.5 hour days for a longer mental break over the weekend, or even 3x 10 hour days could work for folks who really smash hard and get in the groove. Of course i say this as someone living in Taiwan where i am very privileged to be working at a foreign company that "only" expects us to be in for 40 hours instead of 45 or whatever other "unofficial" ( ... )
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It took what, 90 years from the real go-gettin' start of the Industrial Revolution (1840?) where we started building whole cities just to feed factories with bodies working **whatever** their boss wanted, if you wanted a job.... to winning the 8 hour work day with thousands dead, poisoned, burned, crushed, or dismembered along the way. But by then the unions in the U.S. were told to enjoy their spoils or be dismantled, so.. they enjoyed a fair(ish) workday and life/health insurance (in the U.S.) and said that was the best that could be done and left it at that.
I agree with all options you offered. Oh, if only investment bankers, hedge funds, and stock investors DIDN'T believe in this idea of a continual growth economy that MUST grow *or* die.... as if churning money up the ladder to THEM is a suitable human destiny for "the rest" of us.
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100km!!!
LOL I have a story to tell (if I do get around to writing about it). I had a biking day when I was in Austria! Complete with nice surprises, bad surprises, and mishaps! LOL. It was under 50km and we were destroyed at the end of the day haha. I’d do it again despite the mishaps XD
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That sounds exciting!
100km is a long ride, even if it's mostly flat and you pedal slow, it'll still take up a big chunk of the daylight hours. 50km sounds very comfortable to me, even for people who don't cycle much, but hills can turn a fun outing into a real slog. I hope you find time to write about !
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