D&F 2025-12-01
Back after a break If you've read this newsletter for a while you likely wondered why I hadn't sent one in a while: work and life got stressful and I got...
D&F 2025-09-01
The slow news summer is almost over. In the world of racing the Spanish cycling grand tour La Vuelta is midway through, and F1 is back from the summer break....
D&F 8/4/25
D&F 8/03/25 Over here in writing-land I'm somewhat out of sorts, as this coming a week late reveals. Work is super busy with hiring and around sixteen direct...
D&F 6/29/25
This week was long. I spent 50 hours in June on my bike; climbing over 16,952m in 911km, but a week in a room in Chicago with my team wore me out. I am not a...
D&F 5/29/25
Another month is ending a lot quicker than I expected. In May I've spent a lot of time on my bike as I continue to train for bike touring in Japan and the...
D&F 4/28/25
This 'letter is sending a day late because I forgot that April ends in a few days. Since I last sent you a missive I've been busy going to race and ride...
D&F 3/30/25
type: newsletter title: "D&F 3/30/25" description: date: 2025-03-30 tags: - newsletter D&F 3/2/25 I'm wiped today, after a six hour bike with with friends of...
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...