Rented a bike and ride down the river a ways, along the west shore on Saturday, and down the East shore on Sunday (with some additional switching back and forth on the way back each time). On Sunday I stopped a couple times to sew my 'Kube strap' onto my backpack, once at the top of a hill overlooking the river, and another along the east river shore path. I turned around at the E80 bridge, where I crossed over to the west side. It's an interesting bridge because:

• The highway part of the bridge crosses just before 2 rivers come together, and just spands right across both rivers and the land in the middle and on both sides before tunneling into a hillside.
• There are a pair of bike bridges suspended under the highway to cross the 2 rivers.
• The floor of the bike bridges is a metal grating, so you can look straight down at the river

I've been feeling a bit better (less homesick, less aimless) since the weekend of bike rides. Possible reasons:

• Got back to early wakeup and MC with Sara schedule for the past few days.
• Finally got over jetlag?
• Made cool Kube loops on backpack.
• Found my own thread and needles at the thread and needle store northwest of work.
• Got some things accomplished at work: comitted some fixes to master and got mapgen-fixes under control. By which I mean I think I'm coming to understand how the code works.

I dreamt about still being in college part-time. Doing some grad program. Wondered who was paying for it. Are my parents still covering this? I hope not; I have my own money now, so I should be paying. There was some feeling of aimlessness, wondering what I'm doing with my life, then remembering that I'm working on Factorio and that's awesome (because the fact that I'm working on Factorio at all implies that I've got my life together).

That's what's insane about people who argue trickle down [economics works]. Clearly its not fucking trickling.

Do people who believe in trickle down economics actually believe it or are they just fucking dicks? Because some of them that I've talked to are very smart, and it's so simple a 5 year old could understand it.

"I'm going to give betsy more candy than you because she already has more so she's more likely to give it back to you"

"But she has more because you keep giving her more"

"SHUT UP YOU UNGRATEFUL LITTLE BITCH"

-- Justin, whom I stayed up way too late talking to.