DRAWER FOUR — EVERYTHING THAT DIDN'T FIT THE OTHER THREE

Sundries

The drawer without a theme. Cycling, Club Mate, records and whatever else is currently taking up the time.

on wheels
the hobby with no version control
RIDE LOG — 2026KEPT BY HAND, BADLY
DATE
ROUTE
DIST
MOOD
26 JUL
the long one, along the river
140 km
★★★★
12 JUL
hills, badly planned
86 km
★★
28 JUN
to the lake and back
64 km
★★★★
14 JUN
commute, extended twice
41 km
★★★
02 JUN
rain, all of it
55 km
19 MAY
first proper ride of the year
72 km
★★★★★
six most recent · 458 km loggedthe rest lives in my head
THE BIKESTEEL · 1998 · NOT FAST
the creak — somewhere herebar tape: past savingchain: due 200 km ago
still the best thing I own
always in the frame bag
· two tubes, one working pump
· multitool, missing one bit
· a bar of chocolate
· a camera, sometimes
SWAP FOR YOUR REAL KIT
club mate
officially a soft drink

Cold tea with sugar and caffeine, sold in a brown bottle, and the only drink I have ever had to explain to my family. It tastes wrong for about a week and then it does not taste wrong ever again.

It is not a productivity system. It is a bottle that sits next to the keyboard and gets warm while I am arguing with a rate limiter.

· cold tea, but on purpose
· sweet for exactly one sip
· best at 4 °C, tolerable at 20 °C
· the last third is always warm
bottles this year235
crates returned9
record, one sitting4
regretssome
BOTTLES, BY MONTHPEAK 31
JFMAMJJASOND
SPÄTI, 23:40
the one that is always open
4 × club mate 0,56,80
pfand3,00
1 × brötchen0,90
TOTAL10,70
reading
two at a time, badly
THE SHELFSWAP FOR YOUR REAL ONE
The Pragmatic Programmer
Thinking in Systems
Design of Everyday Things
Slaughterhouse-Five
Cosmos
Steppenwolf
A Short History
The Left Hand of Darkness
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Der Prozess
started, not finished
the ones that made it out of the box
CURRENTLY READINGSINCE MARCH
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
PAGE 214 OF 607the other one is a manual
DATE DUE№ 6
12 JAN04 FEB28 FEB19 MAR02 APR23 APR
returned late, mostly
and the rest
one card each, no more
ON THE SHELF
Records

Mostly second-hand, mostly bought for the sleeve.

NO OPINIONS ABOUT CABLES
PAPER, NOT PHONE
Maps

Folded wrong and kept anyway. Sheet 14 has a route on it in biro.

ELEVEN SHEETS, ONE DRAWER
SLOW, ON PURPOSE
Bread

A starter with a name, fed more reliably than some side projects.

STARTED 2024, STILL ALIVE
loose in the drawer
nothing worth a card
expired filmspare spokespostcards, unsentone good penbatteries, probably deadticket stubsallen keysa very old compass
THINGS I KEEP MEANING TO START
the drawer has room
learning to swim properlysoon
the balcony, as a gardenspring, maybe
reading the Rust bookbought it twice
a filing system for all thisironic
got a recommendation?

A record, a route, a book or a bakery — I will take all four. This drawer fills itself from other people.

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