The Cult of SJW 01

Posted on September 23, 2018 by ehurst

If you can’t handle strong words, don’t read this. From time to time we have to pull out the bold statements to get people’s attention. If you don’t think the prophets used crude language and brutal imagery, then you haven’t read them.

It’s not that feelings don’t matter; it’s that God has revealed the proper way to deal with feelings. This whole thing with divine revelation is to help us live in a fallen world. Revelation is God’s prescription on mitigating the effects of the Fall and reclaiming some measure of our divine heritage until such time as He sees fit to end the punishment for rejecting His ways in the Garden. There are no head games here; God isn’t playing with us for His private amusement, but if He was, there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Seek His favor or suffer.

I’m watching the fallout from a recent change in the world of Linux kernel development. The kernel project was the most recent in a long line of hijacks by the Social Justice Warriors (SJWs). In case you didn’t know already, this is a brutal religious cult that uses Satanic methods to control human behavior. There is no particular goal other than destruction. It can’t get any more devilish than that. But if you fail to understand that it is a Satanic cult, then you cannot possibly handle the whole question according to God’s revelation.

This political nonsense in the Open Source software community will destroy everything. The primary vulnerability is that the Linux kernel development process has long been entangled with major corporate interests. And the SJWs have already hijacked whole sectors of corporate culture, particularly in the very leftist oriented Big Tech sector. So the SJWs had the political leverage to pull this off against the admittedly abusive and harsh geek culture.

The net effect is removing the very best and brightest developers from the projects in which they have invested their whole lives. This is precisely what the SJWs want. It is meant to torment and humiliate folks who don’t think like they do. As one commentator noted, the Open Source culture never gave a damn about who you were or what you imagined yourself to be; it cared only about whether the code you wrote was any good. It was about as pure a meritocracy as you could get.

Right now, Linus Torvalds — the man who created Linux in the first place — is off of kernel development. There is every reason to believe he won’t be back. This is precisely what the SJWs have been trying to do for years, particularly via the corporate angle. Major corporations have funded this thing for years, and now contribute a major portion of the code, by paying their own employees to do nothing more than develop the kernel on company time. They have been trying to hijack this project for a long time and they now rejoice that Linus is gone, because he was the final barrier to their attempts to make Linux just like Windows, a massive corporate product used to milk the maximum money from users while taking away every possible choice users might make.

I can’t predict how this will shake out. I would like to believe that those kicked out for violating those precious SJW codes of conduct will fork everything and start fresh with a system that cripples the snowflakes. As it is, this nasty crap has already hijacked several other competing Open Source operating systems, to include the likes of the legendary FreeBSD. There are other projects out there who haven’t surrendered, but they are safe only because they are small and lack significant influence and user numbers. It’s looking more and more like the only safe haven of sanity is to stick with what are considered “hobby operating systems.”

That is, unless the victims of this inquisition figure out the political tactics required to defeat the SJWs. Several commentators are recommending just that. The difficulty for such a move is that most people are unwilling to seize the will to power. They are utterly lacking a proper understanding of human nature, how God revealed that we are wired for Eastern feudalism. I can see the rumblings among the victims of turning back to the very flawed Western style of feudalism. This could work in the short term. Given the ephemeral nature of computer technology as a whole, this is probably sufficient for the current generation. It is highly likely that future generations will see fewer human coders in the first place, replaced by AI writing most of the code.

My point is that you should be wary of how this nasty Satanic cult works. The above is just a sample of how it works. Be aware of it; be ready to testify when the Lord opens the door. Call it what it is.

One final point: I want you to get over your reluctance to see people killed for this stuff. Rid yourselves of the idolatrous notion that life is sacred, life is precious. Death is just a circumstance. Should our society wish to save itself on a level it can understand, it will have to kill a bunch of these idiots who have devoted their lives to Satan. This is the remedy every law covenant demands; it’s the only way to get as close to social stability (a measure of shalom) as they are likely to get. This is what God has demanded. Some of us will, in the natural course of things, be called upon to pull the trigger. God is the one who decides whether your convictions allow it, but I want you to understand that God does work this way.

Jesus cracked a whip.

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Teachings of Jesus — Matthew 23:13-15

Posted on September 22, 2018 by ehurst

Jesus continues His condemnation of the Scribes and Pharisees. This time we examine three short items not often understood very well by Western Christians.

Jesus came as the Messiah to restore the ancient ways of the Covenant. His teaching was everything the Law of Moses was meant to say. Granted, the Covenant of Moses was largely restricted to a particular nation, in a particular place and time. All the particulars of the ritual law were specific to that context. On the one hand, a great deal had changed from those days. On the other hand, the people had long ceased to understand what the Torah meant in the first place.

The Pharisees had one thing right: It was necessary to update the image of what it meant to be obedient to the Law. On the other hand, they had chosen to absorb the Hellenistic intellectual traditions in order to understand something that was Eastern Mysticism by nature. The result was legalism. Instead of bringing a fresh mystical insight into the particulars of a drifting world, they tried to drag all the particulars of life back into the ancient customs, which customs were devoid of life and no longer communicated God’s revelation.

The Law of Moses was meant to be an entryway into the Kingdom of Heaven. It was supposed to teach people something of the divine moral character of the Father. Once they became familiar with His ways, they could then approach Him in spirit and get to know Him personally. That’s how the Covenant of Moses was supposed to work. The Pharisees perverted the whole thing. Because they were utterly incapable of understanding Moses, they were utterly incapable of understanding God. Indeed, they had made a false god out of their logical analysis of the Covenant. Their interpretation of the Law became more sacred than the Law itself.

Thus, Jesus sought to teach a restoration of the vital source of living by reading between the lines of the Old Covenant. He sought to restore the purpose of the Law by presenting Himself as the very living Law of God, a human manifestation of the Father’s divine moral character. He placed revelation even more closely in reach of sincere seekers. The Scribes and Pharisees rejected this entirely. They refused to acknowledge the meaning of the Covenant and closed themselves off from all its promises. They were so hostile that they found it unbearable that anyone should teach the truth of the Law, and did everything in their power to keep even people they despised, such as their own outcast publicans and prostitutes, from repenting according to Jesus’ teaching, not to mention Gentiles.

So it was no surprise that the Pharisees were somewhat wealthy through their rapacious rejection of the spirit of the Covenant. There was much in the Law to protect orphans and widows, the two kinds of folk most likely to lack feudal protections in a tribal society. Among the Scribes in particular were men who engaged in predatory lending. They would work to get some poor widow into debt, then when she couldn’t pay, they would seize her collateral. Often the only thing a widow had was her house, and this was the preferred collateral the Pharisees would demand in pledge on loans. Of course, there were a thousand other ways to cheat people who weren’t familiar with the secretive details of Talmudic law.

Yet these same Scribes would spare no expense in dressing in the best, parading around and engaging in elaborate rituals of public greeting. They would arrange to be outside the Temple during prayer times so they could stop in some public place, block traffic and make these long-winded poetic prayers that hardly reflected the desires of their hearts.

The Pharisees recognized two kinds of converts from among Gentiles. First was the Proselyte of the Gate, someone who was willing to bend to most Jewish customs and worship Jehovah from out in the Court of Gentiles in the Temple. They kept a version of the Law of Noah Jews cooked up for them. The second was the Proselyte of Righteousness, someone who was willing to pass through circumcision, baptism and publicly embraced the Covenant in the presence of three Jewish witnesses. This was more than God actually required (Exodus 12:48-49). Circumcision with the tools of ancient times was no small discomfort for men, so there were naturally more females fully converted than men.

The whole purpose of the Law was to witness to the entire world the truth of God and His revelation for a fallen world. If a Gentile nation would but embrace the Covenant of Noah, the blessings God offered were roughly on par with the blessings of Moses for Israel. The difference was in that Israel alone had the direct revelation of God.

That the Pharisees had twisted that revelation meant they could not do anyone any good at all. All who converted on their terms were even farther from God than Gentiles who had no clue about Israel’s God.

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It’s Too Late for the Sword

Posted on September 22, 2018 by ehurst

Do you recall the scene in Exodus 32 where Moses came down from the Mount of God to find the nation engaged in some hard partying around an idol?

The first thing he did was put some serious interrogation pressure on his brother, Aaron, for letting it happen. Aaron should have refused to play the role they demanded of him. Better to be dead than this deep in sin. In the context, we can also figure that the Tribe of Levi did a lot better, refusing to engage in this nonsense. They knew they were property of Jehovah and couldn’t engage in worshiping another deity. Besides, as Moses was from their tribe, they tended to be loyal to their own.

In the end, it was the Levites who clearly understood their feudal duty to God. When Moses called for a posse to handle the necessary executions of the bad guys. This wasn’t a random slaughter, but a careful pursuit of the most active rebels who pushed so hard on Aaron for this whole thing. The Levites knew who it was that led this rebellion. It was treason. It was a threat to national shalom and the hedge of protection that kept them from being slaughtered in the wilderness by some other nation. So the mission of the Levites here was to cut out the cancer of souls committed to evil, souls that would refuse to obey God under all circumstances.

It’s the hardest thing in the world to execute justice on those closest to you. Learn this one critical moral lesson here: In typical Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) morals of justice, the closest kin are responsible for carrying out capital penalties against those who threaten this kind of low-level treason. This holds a lot of psychological meaning that should be obvious. You should have already tried to restrain them and dissuade them from such grievous sin, and you should be the first to recognize when they simply won’t listen. If you didn’t turn them over to the wider community for judgment in the first place, then you’ll have to pay the price of executing them when their sin bears fruit that everyone can see.

It’s not a lack of mercy; we are naturally indulgent with our closest kin. But the issue is recognizing the Devil and what kind of grip he has on someone. You are obliged to use lesser remedies at first, but you are also obliged to discern when those remedies don’t work. You are obliged to understand how serious the threat is, if indeed it is serious.

When you fail to execute such justice, you leave it to God and His wrath. Note that in verse 34 God mentions a time of visitation coming in the future. The image drawn here is a periodic visit from the feudal lord who will address issues in due time. The narrative then notes there were punitive plagues that fell on the nation for their treason.

Granted, we have no covenant with God in the US. That is, we have rejected the one covenant that could apply to our country — the Covenant of Noah. We rejected it from the start, but it remains applicable and God handles our country on the basis of that covenant, except that we don’t have any of its protections. We have two major idolatries that afflict our land: Globalism and Zionism. They compete and both are evil.

You and I should know quite clearly that the only way we can reduce the penalties for our sins as a country would include slaughtering the folks who lead these two despicable idolatries, but there aren’t enough folks with clean hands to do the job. It may still end up happening on some scale, but it won’t be as a matter of obedience to God. It won’t be like the Levites cleansing the camp of rebels, because the current religious leadership is compromised too deeply with one idolatry or the other. They should be among the slaughtered. So we don’t have any Levites to handle this holy task, and it will be far more chaotic and painful as God unleashes Hell on this country to do the job with all the random spiteful glee you would expect from demons.

A great many redeemable lives will be lost in the ensuing mess.

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Senseless Noise Again

Posted on September 21, 2018 by ehurst

Recently Q said something about “we are not alone” in this universe. Of course we aren’t, but as you know this is going to stir a lot of speculation about what secrets our government holds regarding alleged events at Roswell/Area 51 and the like.

There is no doubt that our government has records to suggest such a thing. There is also no doubt a significant portion of our government’s secrets are pure bullshit. I’m not referring here to records that might indicate variations on reality; I’m referring to outright lies designed to deceive people about what actually happened. I’ll keep my vow not to cite specifics from my military service, but I can tell you I was ordered to write things into the official record that I knew were false. If it happened with insignificant stuff, it surely happened elsewhere with more important events.

Think this through: If there are aliens, they are beings our God created. They are either other people, or angelic/demonic beings. If they are people, either they are fallen or they are not. If they are fallen, how sad for them, but they cannot do us much good. If they are not fallen, then you can be sure virtually nobody in government understood them, because God’s Creation is understood only via the sensory heart. This latter case is where lies are almost guaranteed. If they are demonic/angelic beings, they are just doing their job. It’s quite likely nobody in government who came into contact with either has any clue what they encountered. In that case, they can’t help but lie about it. Whichever way it happened, it won’t change a thing for us.

That is, our mission remains the same: To live the Word of God and bring Him glory. We can boil down a lot of our chatter to “walk in His revelation.” If we can bring ourselves to the place of faithful obedience to Biblical Law, everything else takes care of itself. This is how we are designed to live; revelation is aimed at restoring our access to Eden. All the alien beings in the universe can’t change that.

People experience inexplicable things all the time. Most people simply have no clue how to process the experience, since it demands the mind bend in ways our society cannot acknowledge. The only people with half a clue are heart-led, and within that small sample there is still a high variation of experiences simply because people are wired to notice things in unique ways. Thus, most of the narrative body about UFOs seems self-contradictory. Whatever any human government may have on record is no better. It is the testimony of fallen people who are almost uniformly not heart-led.

Don’t get sucked into the senseless speculation. Stand back; stay aloof from all this falderol. Our mission is fuzzy enough without giving attention to frivolous nonsense.

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Problem of the Trinity Doctrine

Posted on September 20, 2018 by ehurst

Summary: The problem is that standard Trinitarian doctrine attempts to pin something down logically that is way beyond human logic.

This keeps coming up in discussions. On the one hand, we can reject Arianism, for example, on the basis of the first few verses in John’s Gospel. It’s easy: Whatever Jesus was as a man, He was also the Son of God and was there at Creation. On the other hand, it’s utterly foolish to introduce the issue of time and place in history when there is no such restriction in the Eternal Realm. The real problem here is the assumption that time-space restrictions we experience here in the Fallen Realm also apply to the Eternal Realm (AKA Spirit Realm). This is ludicrous.

Indeed, the whole point of using parabolic language to discuss the Spirit Realm is because we don’t have intellectual capabilities for such things. It is utterly impossible for the human intellect to grasp the subject. We can characterize some of the effects of eternal truth in our world, but that’s about as close as it gets. And we are obliged to acknowledge that and work with it as is.

In terms of Church History, the real problem is the introduction of a large number of second generation disciples and scholars who were bereft of eastern mystical background. They were Hellenistic scholars, not genuine Bible scholars. Let’s not forget that the entirety of Hebrew culture and intellectual background is Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) mysticism. If you aren’t a mystic, you can’t be a genuine follower of Christ. He would flatly reject most of what passes today for “Christian theology.” Most of the Early Church Fathers were way off base, seeking to force a Hellenist logical system into something that is inherently eastern mysticism.

Now with this, we should also slap down the false accusation of Western minds that mysticism lacks clarity and precision. ANE mysticism is deeply learned and there are distinct rules that apply to the heart-led way. Heart-led people may well be all over the place in how they express things, but it’s not that hard to discover the common themes in where their expressions point. It requires an ANE kind of mind to see them, but it wasn’t wide open and lacking all boundaries. It wasn’t just anything you might dream up. People who had spent time working on this stuff might differ in some issues, but you would be quite surprised at just how unanimous they could be on core issues.

The reason so many Western thinkers struggle with this is frankly a deep prejudice, and it smacks of moral failure in many cases. They don’t understand this stuff because they refuse to step outside their own private domain of personal control. They don’t know because they refuse to look into it with a genuine seeking heart. Most of them refuse to let their hearts lead in the first place, and demand that everything be brought before them in a proper Aristotelian framework. Aristotle is roasting in Hell folks, largely because he could have known the truth of God but rejected it.

So if you are willing to study these things, it’s quite justified to reject most of what we associate with the Early Church Fathers. We reject Arianism, sure, but we also reject classical Trinitarian teaching on the same grounds: It seeks to answer the wrong question. It’s a sin to try to pin such things down intellectually. Biblical references to Father, Son and Holy Spirit were never meant to offer handles for intellectual precision.

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Just a Silly Story 07

Posted on September 19, 2018 by ehurst

In the next week or so, Trump and Q say Kavanagh will be confirmed as Supreme Court Justice. Most of what you read or hear is just noise; the whole resistance will fall apart.

Meanwhile, Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller will be forced to resign, or be fired. There will be some drama over Trump’s order to declassify a bunch of documents; they won’t be released overnight. Rosenstein is trying to avoid the ax, but Trump refuses to confer with him privately. He will either release those documents or be fired for insubordination. The documents will show that Rosenstein participated in knowingly lying to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on the warrant application to spy on Carter Page. Spying on Carter Page meant spying on the whole White House staff. The documents will also show Rostenstein continued in the cover-up of those lies.

Mueller will be done because his whole mission as Special Counsel rests on those same lies, and Rosenstein commissioned him to pursue the bogus investigation. It’s a perversion of justice and waste of taxpayer money. It was a fraud for purely partisan political reasons.

AG Pete Sessions has been in touch with the Supreme Court privately about rescinding his recusal from some of that case. Meanwhile, Sessions and one of his deputies, John Huber, have been meeting lately. Q’s army speculates that this indicates Huber is wrapping up his grand jury investigation and is about ready to unseal some of those 52,000 indictments. That will be a very big job, and could easily consume the whole month of October, should that be when things get started. This is what Q predicted last year would be the timing this year.

A number of Democratic Party bigwigs are complaining on Twitter that Trump has gone mad based on his order to declassify “national security information.” So far as anyone can tell, every one of them has either leaked secrets directly, or brought uncleared people into high security information storage areas. Hypocrisy in politics shouldn’t surprise anyone.

If this stuff actually starts happening, the indictments in particular, I would be highly surprised if there weren’t riots or other public disorder. Be watchful, folks.

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Give Them a Wide Berth

Posted on September 19, 2018 by ehurst

The Israeli government has recently claimed that it can “legislate anywhere in the world”, that it is “entitled to violate the sovereignty of foreign countries”, and that “is allowed to ignore the directives of international law in any field it desires”. This was written in an official response letter to the Supreme Court last month. (source)

Caveat: I reject the notion of “international law.” That is a fiction long used by bigger nations to bully the smaller. The issue here is the unconscionable arrogance of Israeli government. We knew this already, of course. Israel has often stated that only Jews are human; all Gentiles are animals. This is written in their Talmud, and they have acted accordingly since before they decided to move back to Israel.

And with this we must review our understanding: The Talmud is contrary to the Law of Moses. Jesus flatly stated that (Matthew 15:1-20, among other passages). The only way Jews can have a valid claim to any of the blessings promised in the Bible is to obey the actual Covenant of Moses as Jesus taught it. Were they faithful to the Covenant, their audacious claims would be more reasonable. The current claim that Israel is a Jewish nation inheriting the Old Testament favor of God is a flat out lie.

But it’s not necessary for us to take any kind of activist approach to this. All we need to do is assert the obvious from God’s Word. This is one of those things that registers in your convictions as manifestly true; your heart knows it, regardless whether your mind is ready to embrace it. The only good we can do is therefore approach the issue heart-led: Allow God to drive the truth home in His own way, His own time. Just walk in it.

Given that this is God’s own truth, we know that sooner or later reality itself will enforce this truth. It will hardly be in the time and manner that makes sense to our minds, but this is how God works. He is permitting Israel to act as a goad, a scourge to punish mankind for rejecting His revelation. This is the left hand of God, a mission He passed to Satan a long time ago. Israel is Satan’s project to provoke and infuriate the world and drive people mad. The whole point is to make people act stupid and fall under God’s wrath. That’s Satan’s job and Israel is one of his very best tools. It’s a tar-baby.

Thus, our point is to explain why people should ignore Israel. Not in the sense that you would wade through a mosquito and crocodile infested swamp, but that you recognize it for the swamp it is and avoid messing with it. In due time, events will coalesce to destroy this nasty little country. But when the Jews rejected their Messiah, yet refused to disband when their own reason for existing was gone, they became the nation of Satan. The Talmud is a covenant from Hell.

We should still treat Jews the same as anyone else in the sense of pouring out our heart-led compassion and divine mercy on them. But we should recognize their special status as more damned than the rest of humanity. It takes an extra dose of mercy to get to them, because they are deeper in the wrath of God.

As for modern Israel: Just wait it out. This thing cannot avoid failure, because it is flatly contrary to everything in God’s divine character, which is woven into all Creation.

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Scattered Biking Images

Posted on September 18, 2018 by ehurst

This is a combination of shots taken over a period of a week or so. Our first is the ramp up to the bridge Midwest City placed alongside SE 29th; it’s finally open for use. It was finished a couple weeks ago.

These are late summer blossoms growing in tall grass out around Draper Lake. They don’t come out until September most years. The field was full of them, but the next day after this shot the whole area was mowed and baled for hay.

This is as far as the bulldozer has gotten by this morning plowing up the new bikeway path. The crews are ready to head down below the dam. It’s about a mile of trail wandering in the valley before it links to the other end. That other end should have the concrete curb/shoulder finished today or tomorrow.

I took a screenshot from Google Maps showing the area below the dam. The pale blue line is approximately the current paved trail. The lavender line is roughly where I see the stakes lined up. The gap between the two is a very deep creek bed that is at least as deep as I am tall, and looks more like 8 feet (2.5m).

This is just another shot I took yesterday from the eastern end of the River Trails. During that ride I was astonished to find no mud pits as I crossed between the River Trail and the Eagle Lake Trail. It looks like crews are dropping crushed asphalt along the previously very rough trail linking the two. This is preparatory for eventually making it a regular bikeway trail.

This last is a shot of the Midwest City bikeway running along the decommissioned rail line. It’s a quick way to get back home after taking the Post Road corridor away from Draper Lake. It zigzags to the right of that building and continues on for another mile or so.

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Digging the Grave for Linux

Posted on September 17, 2018 by ehurst

Someday, I won’t be using Linux any more.

First you have to understand why I use it now: It is the single best replacement for commercial operating systems. It is so for me, and for some of my tech support clients. That is so because there are several commercially viable Linux distributions. They come with the bells and whistles and I don’t have to know too awfully much to make it work as a common desktop. Some years ago Linux started becoming easier to use, and recently is far easier than Windows or Mac.

But the easy to use commercially viable Linux brands have all adopted “systemd” and that was the beginning of the end. All the various distributions of Linux that work the way I do are infected with this monster. With each passing release, more and more of the system is sucked into this vortex and the user has less and less freedom to choose things he/she should very well have the freedom to choose. The arrogance of the “systemd” folks is off the charts; there are no words to express it. It will soon be unusable for me; it will make Linux too much like Windows.

The few Linux brands not using “systemd” are not commercially viable for the desktop. Most of them have way too much work the user must do, and therefore way too much technical detail that users would have to know, but really shouldn’t have to know. There is a sweet spot between too simple and too complicated, and those without “systemd” are together all too complicated. They don’t simply work the way I do, nor the way my tech support clients work. They are not viable. They might work for you, but it’s just more monumental arrogance to insist your way is the default. Lots of people will continue to use Linux, but my time with it is now short. I’m pretty sure Xubuntu 18.04 is my last Linux.

If I’m going to have to keep a fat book of tricks I have to do to make it work like I do, my current inclination is to switch to the BSDs. Let’s just say that, in my experience, FreeBSD (for example) is far less perverse in making things difficult, puts up fewer roadblocks for what I feel I must do. This won’t happen tomorrow, but sometime in the future when Xubuntu Bionic no longer serves my purposes, that’s when I’ll switch over.

And it’s not just “systemd;” lots of things in Linux Land have gone the wrong direction for me and for my clients. It’s been a good run over the last 20 years, but a lot of things have crept into Linux to kill it for me.

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Bits and Pieces 35

Posted on September 17, 2018 by ehurst

Just catching up some personal stuff here.

The bike is all up and ready. I gave it a test run today on the River Trails out to Portland and back. I carry the small camera because most of my rides lately are aimed at training. I practice what I preach. When I post prophetic warnings, it’s the same as announcing what I am preparing for. Right now I need to get in the best shape possible while things are still peaceful. When the first crisis comes — and it could be any day now — I’ll need that fitness level.

So I’ve redoubled my efforts to keep doing those indoor workouts first thing in the morning. Around our place, we get up before 5AM when my wife works. I get my shoes on and hit the mat. On alternate days I’ll either do my tension workout or a collection of calisthenics I learned in the military. I work extra hard on the abdominal stuff both days; it’s the one part of my body that needs it most and is also the one part that can take it.

So about the only time I take my big camera with me is when I’m checking out the progress on the Draper Lake bikeway. I was there Friday but because of the heavy overcast skies, my pictures turned out not so good. Overcast is okay for stuff that’s close in, but not for long distance shots. Overcast here typically comes with a haze that fuzzes out the long shots.

In case you are wondering, the survey stakes indicate the path will wander a bit below the dam, instead of hugging the base of it. There’s one spot out there where, I swear, they are going to have to install a bridge or a very large culvert because it crosses one of the old creek beds that still flows when it rains. I’ll be going out there tomorrow and I expect clear to partly cloudy skies, so the pictures should be better.

It’s my birthday tomorrow (62) but I’ll still post the pictures from the ride.

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