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Bike to work to live to bike
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Stupid Hurts
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I'm not drunk enough for this
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BikeHacks
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Mozam's cycling adventures
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Various forms of silence

Alright, no updates for a couple of days, but I'll get to that point later. It's quite interesting that a simple term such as "silence" can have two separate meanings. The first was experienced on Sunday Night with a ride through the reinforced of Urliup. There are some pictures of this area in some earlier entries, so I won't dig for them now. However, the thing that stands out here is the total and utter silence that radiates through the forest. It's almost as if the birds have gone to sleep, and with most of the dirt road being muddy due to the earlier rain, even the tyres were silent. There were still a few bird calls to remind me that I wasn't totally alone, and the occasional gust of wind to maintain the senses, but overall it was very quite -- almost surreal.

The second meaning is slightly less pleasant, relating to the fact that my PC is now non-functional -- largely because I deleted a file that I shouldn't have. This wouldn't normally be such a problem, except that living in Queensland means I'm basically cut off from the outside world except for my lunch break at work. News outlets here tend to take the view that "if it didn't happen in Queensland, it didn't happen". This basically means that if Osama Bin Laden was captured at Tweed Heads (a mere 25km away), I wouldn't be aware of it. Actually, the inability to come home from work last night and participate in some of the on-line discussion boards that I sometimes frequent with my (increasingly rare) free time was quite a sobering thought. I actually felt alone, and I've not felt that for quite some time -- despite the fact that I actually live alone.

I think I'll need to go for a ride this evening just to get away from that feeling.

It also means that I can't upload any photos until I get it working again, which is a shame because last night's sunset was just beautiful!

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