© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
stats. Today 79.81km Trip total 270km
Dark at 5.45 am, we are woken by Debbie’s loud hailer again. The stars are still out and there are bats flying around the floodlights catching the insects. I’m convinced that we really don’t need to be woken so early…
stats. Today 84.43km Trip total 118km
Dr Alan, Jeff, Ron, Jim and I rolled out at 8:15, fueled up on porridge and in good spirits. The pace was a little high and Ron left us to ride at a more comfortable one. Jeff and I moved to the front on the first of many short sharpish climbs.
stats. Today 33.9km Trip total 34km
By the time I arrived in Warragamba I’d catalogued a few more minuses to sitting in the back seat of the bus — the seat won’t recline, and it was right next to the toilet, luckily the latter just stank in a chemical, rather than biological, manner.
![Journal for [2003-03-08 Sat]](https://ajft.org/img/default2.jpg)
Proof that we’re sticking to the pledge and making each month’s pasta dish as it comes up in the calendar… Just like , we’ve scraped in by the skin of our teeth with only one day to go.
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.