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I now have a redbubble store . I was wrong. There, I said it. I didn't want a Trisled Gizmo afterall, I wanted a Greenspeed GT20. You know, that "annoying" thing where, even before the bike shop have met you, they know what you actually want and they'll gently steer you to what's better suited to you? It's not even price or fit, it's not their brand, but another they carry. It's the machine-of-best-fit. Not in size fit, but fit for purpose. I'm buying a Greenspeed. Yesterday, I jumped on the VLine train to Morwell, in Victoria's Gippsland Basin, a sizable town in a lush (by Australian standards) pastoral paradise, busy with agribusiness and farming. It's also home to what is the home of Australia's next best known recumbent, Trisled, who also sell Greenspeed since Ian Sims passed and his family sold the business overseas, as well as the Terra Trike range. I set up a time with them to visit and test ride and, while Trisled's mach...

Oh wow! This month is the approach to the 8th anniversary of this! Imminent Flood was released officially on March 31, 2017! My only proper album. I did dozens of "cassalbums" in the 80s and 90s and have appeared on Regeneration by my old Tassy band, The Breed, but Imminent Flood is the last time I made music for sale. It kind of marks where music became my hobby rather than my hope. And yes, it's a album, not an EP, it runs longer than 30 minutes.

In response to Trump and Vance basically stabbing Zalenskey in the back, the Norwegian oil company, Haltbakk Bunkers, has placed an indefinite ban on fuel sales to any and all US military operations in the country, declaring support for Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskey. A private (not stock market listed) company, Haltbakk Bunkers can do this without sharemarket reprisals. Wars start with small sparks that find fuel and quickly conflagrate. An Arch Duke gets shot by a nutter. A dictator invades a Polish province after agreeing days before to not do so. A team of non-state actors fly planes into a pair of skyscrapers and a military headquarters. An oil company bans sales to a military power stationed in the oil company's country after an undiplomatic Presidential outburst. I hope I'm wrong, but the Norwegian solidarity response to the US Presidential castigation of the Ukranian leader, smells like an "Arch Duke moment." I also hope I'm wrong in thinking t...