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I'm eagerly awaiting the final book but haven't tried out the novellas. Which would you recommend to read before the last book comes out.
I'm tempted by The Churn but I already imagine Amos' back story as pretty grim, so not sure a book would go as bleak as the bits I've already filled in in my head.
Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger came out a few weeks later too, and the first Alice in Chains album in August. There's always a bit of bias for stuff you liked when you were 18 as it's a fun age that I remember (mostly) fondly, but that's a simply amazing collection of albums released within weeks of each other.
I'm revisiting Pretty On The Inside which also came out a few weeks before as I've got tickets to an exhibition next weekend that Courtney is doing to commemorate 30 years of. I loved Riot Grrrl but wrote it off at the time as an inferior copy of Babes In Toyland's Spanking Machine. If I'm honest I still think that's true, but now don't see that as a bad thing. Certainly Hole went on to make 2 amazing albums, and some of the signs were there on the debut.
Conversely, one of my team lives with his parents and his mum is a bit of a compulsive hoarder type. They've always had a garage full of tinned food and household essentials 'just in case'.
She has apparently been unbearably smug for most of the last 2 years.
Similar advice for cleats/clipless - if in doubt build up speed with one leg, either pedalling full circles or just pushing down then backpedalling to the top (which you can do with one foot in straps/clips), before trying to sort out your other leg. the bike will be more stable at speed. It does get easier with practice, and you're not really a proper cyclist until you've fallen over at some traffic lights having forgotten to unclip as you come to a stop.
I've been riding spd-sl for years and still have the odd hiccup when I can't clip in properly. Generally speaking it's not a problem, but if I'm in a slightly risky position, like pulling off from traffic lights with cars behind I'll still get up speed before trying to clip my left foot in. Don't really want to be wobbling about when someone is overtaking you.
It's too easy to overthink cycling - best advice is to get out there and enjoy it. Unless you're training to compete or doing huge events no-one ever got less fit by just riding more. If you want to get fitter without riding more, push harder on the pedals (and maybe go up and down decent hills that take several minutes to climb).
I return after a year or two off with crappy family circumstances and dodgy mental health and the first post I read is your latest 'Despatches ...' which made me well up with just how decent people can be, and here we are, half a dozen posts later shouting at the laptop because PEOPLE ARE WRONG ON THE INTERNET!!!!
Megadeth have probably been patchier over the years, and Mustaine is never going to be a singer, but when they're good they bloody soar. One of my favourite live acts, and I've seen a lot of live acts.
Ahem.
*deep breaths*
Anyway, Dylan. Seen him play. Awful. I'm told you need to see around half a dozen Dylan gigs to get one of the transcendent ones that makes it all worthwhile. Life's to short.
Just waiting for the price to drop on the last one before buying it. Watched the tv version, and while initially I didn't think any of the characters were as I imagined them, it really grew on me.
Just finishing Rosewood, which I'd recommend if you like sci-fi. Won the last Arthur C Clarke award.