Ahh yeah I have mine separated into machine and other screws. At least mostly separated.

Context:

In cologne Germany there is a huge carnival culture, historically carnival is sorta anti establishment, but for a variety of reasons in post ww2 cologne carnival is the establishment. So the Karnevalsvereine have shows/plena called Karnevals_Sitzung. Because these events had lost their anti establishment air, at some point a reaction formed called the Stunk_Sitzung (roughly grievance session as opposed to carnival sessions) which re focused on anti establishment satire, both satirizing main stream carnival and broad local to global politics. This event then became the de facto cultural institution in terms of carnival satirical stage show running several shows weekly throughout the entire season (Nov-Feb/March).

Story:

Getting tickets for this show for a weekend close to the end of the carnival season (the season ends with the main parades and festivities)requires ordering tickets in person on the day the tickets go on sale, with the ticket offices opening 9am lining up at 10pm isn’t uncommon, and I have been part of such a line. Although it is also common for the spot in line to be transferable, so I did a shift roughly midnight to 5am at which point I went home to bed and someone else did the last 4h shift and bought tickets.

For the screws apparently what happens if you do it long enough is that you aquire a sifting pan for well sifting through your screws.

Unsorted screws half broken bike parts and wooden boards of various sizes.

Rolled down 80km of Italian alps today on the Alpe-Adria cycling route. Probably the nicest part of the route. Between Villach and Carnia including some 50+ km of the most beautiful rail to trail I’ve been on. With good weather as well. Honestly amazing day.

Riding road bikes in a group at a faster than I’d move alone speed. It’s a ton of fun even if my entire body is sore the next day.

Only like 3 long weekend rides in the last month and my body already feels significantly stronger than at the start of the season. Specifically I got dropped on the hills 3 weeks ago, now I can mostly keep up.