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I emailed several bike shops about special ordering the frameset I want. A couple of them have already gotten back to me. None will special order them because they cannot guarantee an ETA, but they do suggest that they may start appearing in June. This seals this adventure until then, and I can focus my energy towards other parts.
The first thing I want to get done, before I have the frameset, is the wheels to stick on it. No one seems to sell complete wheelsets that fit my criteria within a reasonable price, even when the criteria is only cut down to the must haves in order to be compatible with the frame. So I've started looking into what parts I need to build my own wheel. I've decided that I won't actually do the build myself, the cost of the special tools is one that will likely never pay for itself, but I can get the bike shop to build a wheel from parts I've collected.
As far as rims go, I know what my criteria are and I know roughly what brands make the kinds of rims that I want. As far as specifics, they end up all being the same, so I'm not wasting time thinking about them and intend to just go by what's available when I am ready to make the purchase.
Hubs, I have found, are hell to shop for. There are so many variants of any given model, all of which look the same, so you find yourself staring at a page of lookalikes struggling to parse strings of seemingly random numbers trying to figure out if they match your requirements. I'd like to fall back on 105 hubs, but for disc brakes they only come in through-axle variants, I need quick release. I think there are adapters, but as far as I know, adapters are not ideal.
Spokes and nipples are a non-concern for me until I order a specific rim and a hub, since the specs of the former depend on the specs of the latter.
I killed someone for the first time last night. There really is nothing like it. I was pretty stressed and angry about some personal matters, and did a late night hike on one of the local trails to relax. I crossed paths with another night hiker, and having been thinking about what it would be like to slaughter a person for a while, I think my circumstances pushed me over the edge and thought I may as well go for it.
It's weird. Most humans are probably never expecting or ready to be attacked by something they perceive as their kin, even if they have a real fear of the possibility. Especially if you've lived your whole life in one of the safest cities in the nation. What are you going to do when you nod and smile at a peer in one moment, and the next you've taken a hit to the head and are on the ground?
I've got a bag which I keep prepared for unplanned hikes like this one. It's kept stocked with water bottles and an assortment of utility tools, like a bottle opener and a knife.
The head high you get when you are sitting on someone and just pounding away at their chest with a blade is fucking incredible. I must've spent a good five minutes repeating the action. I figure this must be what it's like to get hooked on heroin. I can't stop reliving the moment and craving more. Dude looked pulverized by the time I was too tired to keep going, there's a strange beauty in the grotesqueness of the mangled human body...
I've been feeling pretty bummed in general lately because of the mixture of not getting any excersize and having nothing to do except grind math homework. Daytime weather has been poorer than usual so I haven't been going out, even though it's the exact same weather I started in... I feel like I must've adapted to the heat too quickly during the couple of high temperature days. I need to find a pair of arm and leg warmers that fit me, since the ones offered by the company which made the bibs and jersey I wear don't go small enough to fit my noodle arms.
I've found math to be frustrating, and not because I struggle with juggling numbers around. There's a whole lot of really basic concepts that, when you try to look them up, you only get results for videos, or tutorials which break down step by step the how but don't describe what the operation actually is so you have to struggle to find the overview of what it actually is you want to do. Like, I know that what I am looking for can (and in practice, is) trivially broken down into a neat formula, but the only resource that will give it to me straight is digging through a textbook for it.
I swear that Pearson must be censoring math websites to make sure their textbooks are the only clear and concise resource.
I'm tired and have spent most of this week in bed.
Some sections of todays log may be fabricated.