Oh, I don't go playing around with the live production nuclear systems. Already had those tip over in routine daily maintenance, without any odd experimentation (a system's check found an error, and unfortunately the error condition was such that the act of checking brought down the entire control system; they're quite durable and nothing bad happens for several hours, they go into a safe, low output mode). Of course you don't go mucking about in the danger zone.

But so many people won't do anything, even in a sandboxed environment, or off to the side, or under project deadlines, or what. They won't risk spending $50 because maybe what they're buying will be not-great-for-them, and they're out $50. They won't attempt to troubleshoot whatever's not working because "I don't understand how this works" ... meaning they don't want to do something and find out it's even more wrong, even when the entire scope of damage is "I lose 5 minutes of my time doing something stupid, and then go back and try again."

I ask a lot of questions; but I blaze a lot of paths through planes nobody even knew existed because they haven't gotten through the surrounding bushes, either. I also fall in a lot of thorn bushes and have to come back....



By the way, got my clipless pedals today. I fell off twice; turns out asphalt doesn't hurt. Hard part seems to be flipping the pedal over (clips only on one side), and while I was distracted working that out I hit the ground. Aside from that, clip in is harder than clip out; but a few tries and I got it: In and forward.

The result? It's like I went from 2 cylinders to 4 cylinders. Power up the hills, accelerate 0-20 in like 1 second, no fatigue, legs don't feel worked so much as they feel... like they're doing work. It's not exhausting or strenuous, I've got tons of power to just throw all over the place and burn rubber wherever I want.

This ... this is good.