D&F 2/23/25
February is almost over, but what a month it's been. Sure, the United States is rapidly declining into a global pariah and a fascist monarchy, but also it...
D&F 1/26/25
Happy new year! I hope you had a restful and easy holiday time, and fire-free January. California was a mess in the south, and the US was a mess everywhere,...
D&F 12/22/24
Happy Solstice! We're headed back towards sunny evenings, and I'm excited. Leading up to January it gets harder and harder to ride bikes after work, so I've...
D&F 11/03/24
For our sins, it’s election week. Whether democracy is under threat, or was undermined so severely beginning with Reagan that we are already in a corporate...
D&F 10/20/24
It’s pseudo-fall in the Bay Area, with high 70s days and 50s nights and a chance of massive forest fire. I’m preparing for my Japan ride, and wondering if...
D&F 9/22/24
It’s new Apple device week around these parts, so I wrote about iOS 18 and a new phone. Normal people have almost no reason to upgrade their phone every...
D&F 9/8/24
D&F 9/8/24 It’s Tinker Tailor time in this house. I’ve been on a Le Carré book and movie kick recently after buying his entire bibliography earlier this...
An Unsent News letter: D&F 5/19/24
Apparently I never sent this, so here’s a bonus email from the past It was a long week for this newsletterist. Between waking up for a commute, and an...
D&F 9/1/24
To catch you up on my life since I last sent one of these in June, I rode my bike a lot, started a new job at the same company, went to Portland for the...
D&F 6/9/24
D&F 6/08/24 It sure feels like January was last week. We’re dipping into summer and the year is moving fast in the way that I assume only a year following a...
D&F 5/6/24
D&F 5/06/24 Mondays might be the new Sunday. I realized while camping this weekend I’ll have a better chance of doing this weekly again if I write it on a...
D&F 4/29/24
D&F 4/29/24 Happy Birthday Drew! I forget how old he is, but one of the bay’s best dads continues to drop amazing videos and posts, proving blogging isn’t...
D&F 4/22/24
Happy Earth Day! I took a few months off from newslettering due to life stress, and a link environment I would call “slow news month”. The rain in the Bay...
D&F 2/18/24
D&F 2/18/24 Can you believe it’s almost March?! Got sick again with some kind of cold that my friend and his kid also have. I was hoping it was just...
D&F 1/22/24
type: newsletter title: "D&F 1/21/24" description: date: 2024-01-21 tags: - newsletter D&F 1/21/24 Another rainy weekend, but this time I’m also on-call. It...
D&F 1/14/24
D&F 1/14/23 Happy rainy new year! Since we last met, I’ve alternated between hibernating and cycling, with a little fever to end my year. I’ve seen Wild...
D&F 12/17/23
D&F 12/16/23 It’s almost holiday break and yet it’s a sunny 63F outside. After a few weeks of riding my bike in Japan in close to freezing temperatures it...
D&F 11/19/23
D&F 11/19/23 Greetings from hangover town. I rode my new bike to a brewpub last night for a friend's birthday and I quickly learned that my gut microbiome-...
D&F 11/12/23
D&F 11/12/23 The effort is underway to preserve the bridge I use to travel around the bay to Mount Tam or SF from my mouse for cyclists and pedestrians after...
D&F 11/5/23
D&F 11/05/23 It's been a while! I got very busy with life and bicycling in October and managed to write almost nothing but work documents. On the upside, I...
D&F 9/18/23
D&F 9/17/23 Sorry for the late missive, I got fully sucked in to watching Please Take Care of my Refrigerator and cooking Korean food. The food was good, but...
D&F 9-10-23
D&F 9/10/23 My first week back at work after my bike trip started with two days of feeling ill. I never tested positive for COVID, but whether it was...
D&F 9-03-23
D&F 9/03/23 I rode to Vancouver! Last weekend was tiring but super fun, and I can't wait for more adventures on my bike. Instead of packing a bag to be...
D&F 8-20-23
D&F 8/20/23 It's an on-call weekend so I spend most of it at my house, playing Baldur's Gate 3 on my new Steam Deck. This is my laziest weekend in a while...
D&F 7-30-23
D&F 8/12/23 And I'm back! Last weekend's camping meant I wasn't around to write a newsletter. Point Pinole was great, with ample gravel cycling and ocean...
D&F 7-30-23
D&F 7/30/23 It's blue skies and an end to July tomorrow. Nobody thought they could do it, but an atomic barbie double-feature continues to sell out through...
D&F 7-23-23
D&F 7/23/23 Another hot one! Luckily for me, my bike ride on Saturday stayed close enough to the water to provide wind and cool air, mixed with the 40%...
D&F 7-17-23
D&F 7/17/23 It's a sad weekend as my favorite sport's governing body chooses bigotry and exclusion by banning trans women from women's cycling races. This...
D&F 7-09-23
D&F 7/09/23 200K! Yesterday I completed my longest bike ride (last weekend my second longest) with 200 kilometers (130mi) of epic adventure climbing 3543m...
D&F 7-3-23
D&F 7/2/23 Yesterday was long! I rode my first century (160km/100mi) but timed it poorly with the hottest day of 2023 in the Bay Area so far. Hours 3-5 were...
D&F 6-25-23
D&F 6/25/23 One snapped chain, four beers, and two sandwiches later, I’m back from a weekend bike camping trip with friends. It wasn’t a long ride to China...
D&F 6-18-23
D&F 6/18/23 The boy has pooped! All the ambient stress I was dealing with last weekend is off my shoulders as Snorri seems back to full health. As I write...
D&F 6-12-23
D&F 6/12/23 Back next week. I’ve got a sick cat at home and I’m kinda stressed about it. Links Here’s a cool video to tide you over of a silly little bike...
D&F 6-6-23
D&F 6/4/23 It's JUNE! I'm beat today, with a pair of legs that feel more like concrete than muscle. Yesterday I did an 60 mile ride with a friend punctuated...
D&F 5-28-23
D&F 5/30/23 A day late because I forgot what day it was mid-bike ride and sleep-catch-up. Sunday was spent with F1 racing, and some Japanese food with...
D&F 5-22-23
D&F 5/22/23 Saturday I had a plan to ride to Sausalito to meet up with some folks who had just raced a gravel alleycat, but the USPS guy woke me up at...
D&F 5-14-23
D&F 5/14/23 It’s new Zelda weekend, which means I got very little sleep. Open-world games like this or Elden Rings are so up my alley it’s hard to put them...
D&F 5-7-23
D&F 5/7/23 Good morning from a breezy and wet pre-race day in Oregon. I drove up to the coast on Friday, arriving deep in the night and settling in with a...
D&F 04-29-23
D&F 04-29-23 Good morning, race fans! If you watched Drive to Survive and decided to check out Formula 1 racing, then this weekend will be exciting and...
2023-03-23-D&F
2023-03-23-D&F This weekend was a many-spirited thing. Friday meant rum & cokes during Beau is Afraid, and Saturday brought an alleycute bike race with pals....
D&F 4-16-23
D&F 4/16/23 It's four days until 4/20! I always hoped that the legalization of weed would make it less insufferable as a hobby, but unfortunately Phish...
D&F 4-9-23
D&F 4/9/23 It's spring break for many of my colleagues, but in my house the focus is on the Paris Roubaix bike race. They call it the Hell of the North, and...
D&F 4-2-23
D&F 4/2/23 It’s an on-call weekend in the Shelley house, which means Snorri and I are short on sleep[^5 hours Friday night.], and stuck close to home. The...
D&F 3-26-23
D&F 3/26/23 The sun it bright and I left my house before noon on Saturday! It’s a spring miracle. Pay no heed to the doomsayers that suggest the weather is...
D&F 3-19-23
D&F 3/19/23 This week felt like a month. Monday through Friday comprised two separate management offsets with nonstop meetings and social activities. I’m...
D&F 3-12-23
The rain is back in Oakland and everything is wet as. I rode up Tunnel road on Friday and there were multiple landslides across the road, which created some...
D&F 3-6-23
D&F 3/5/23 With the constant rain lately in Oakland, I'm looking for bright spots, and this morning for the 3rd time since I moved here I heard it: thunder!...
D&F 2-26-23
D&F 2/26/23 Today's newsletter is a bit late because friend of the letter Drew reminded me that the game Kerbal Space Program exists. I spent around 10 hours...
D&F 2-19-23
D&F 2/19/23 My weekend of bike camping didn’t destroy my body, so this week was a nice mix of recovery and actual normal cycling. I missed it so much! My...
D&F 2-12-23
D&F 2/12/23 I'm finally bicycling again! After what felt like months, but was only a few weeks, I'm able to go outside and bicycle a little. I haven't done...