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Please don't expect some kind of end–of–year meme or quiz of summary of my life, as setting down something like that, then staring into it's cold face would likely make me depressed. The last one I did was several years ago, please look at that.

As a final 2010, up yours from the universe in general. The crank–arm on one of my bikes broke^* without warning this afternoon in traffic, in town.

Looking on the plus side, a potential traffic catastrophe (from my POV, at least) didn't happen. Despite being left sprawling, I kept the bike upright by some miriacle and didn't disappear under the wheels of the inevitably–following–too–closely car that was behind. A further plus... a replacement crankset was easily found; JIS Square taper... check; 130mm BCD ... check; Half–price! ... ohhh nice. Admittedly, the 165mm version would've been slightly better than the 170. But 170 will do and I'm not about to spend the last evening of the year chasing one down, just for the sake of paying full RRP.

So yeah... Happy New Y., people. Good health and hope it's better than the last.


* Looking alsost eactly like this, with a combination of a light, brittle fracture and a dark, fatigure fractue