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 * date: 31_OCTOBER_2024
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Within a week of getting a flat tire on my bicycle (i.e. the front tire) I got another flat tire (i.e. the back tire) after riding my bike to the Philz Coffee in downtown Sunnyvale for a second time today (i.e. 30_OCTOBER_2024) and leaving that bike parked (and locked) next to another bicycle (i.e. the same bicycle I saw parked there the last few times I visited that area). I also thought I overheard other people making condescending remarks about me. I spent a lot of time applying for jobs which were posted on Indeed dot Com today. I cannot help but feel that I definitely am being ganged up on by people who want me to remain unemployed and obstructed from achieving my goals in an efficient and joyful manner. My life seems to be getting more difficult over time instead of easier. Nevertheless, I’m trying the best I can to stay proactive and authentic instead of letting other people bully me out of bicycling or acting more fear-driven and compliant with their patriarchy. (It could be that I simply ran over thorns and that some or all of the flattened tire incidents were not human-intended. To people’s faces I say I think I ran over a thorn or sharp object, but internally I think at least half of those tire flats were deliberately caused by humans who wanted to impede my “workflow” and cause me distress (in order to punish me for being “too happy” or “too functional” compared to what they are and/or want me to be)).

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I really have been enjoying sitting inside of the Philz Coffee in downtown Sunnyvale. It is a great place to use the (high-speed) Wi-Fi Internet, charge my electronics, drink exceptionally delicious coffee, and immerse myself in the relatively classy, professional, and youthful culture of Silicon Valley. I would not want some sour-puss sore losers to deter me from taking part in that scene just because they are too uptight, violence-prone, low-brow, and non-progressive to seamlessly fit in (which is why they seem to have relegated themselves to being outside the building near the street while allegedly waiting for some bus (because I thought I rode past the same asshole who was encroaching upon my personal space and smoking cigarettes at me a few weeks ago on my way back to the courtyard where the Philz Coffee is located a second time today and I thought I heard him saying some insults while I was bicycling past him (which makes me think he might have tampered with my bike)).

To get around that recurring issue of my tires going flat when I park it in that courtyard while staying a while at the Philz Coffee (especially inside away from the rowdy noises and traffic smells and sounds), I plan on parking the bike at the rack in front of the Whole Foods Market two blocks south of that courtyard instead. I also intend to order tubeless tires and have them installed as soon as feasible.

While I’m on the subject of getting bullied (especially in Sunnyvale), I’m going to include a list of web pages within my blog which describe incidents which occurred within the past four months where I felt victimized by other people who seemed to have more “power” than me in terms of number and availability of accomplices, possession of weaponry (including cars), and economic strongholds (i.e. monetizable property, income sources, and professional and familial references providing testimony affirming those people’s relatively superior socioeconomic status over me):

anecdote_0: https://karbytesforlifeblog.wordpress.com/karbytes_22_august_2024/

anecdote_1: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_22/main/karbytes_07_october_2024.txt

anecdote_2: https://karbytesforlifeblog.wordpress.com/journal_karbytes_27october2024/

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Earlier today when I was riding my bike from the Sunnyvale sloughs to downtown Sunnyvale (to get some coffee and groceries) and traveling south along Mathilda Avenue shortly after crossing the freeway overpass closest to the Google Cloud campus, I passed by a guy wearing a red bandana over his nose and mouth while walking a Google bike up the incline with items loaded in the front bike basket.

Later tonight while I was walking my bike north along that same road, I noticed an abandoned Google bike on the north side of that overpass and thought it might be the same bike that guy with the face covering was using.

After I parked and locked my bike at a bike rack on the Google Cloud campus, I walked back to that abandoned Google bike and rode it back to Sunnyvale sloughs. (I saw a few other Google bikes abandoned or being used at the Sunnyvale sloughs in the recent past and hence felt justified in borrowing the Google bike (which I jokingly refer to as a “communist bike” due to the fact that it does not belong to any one person in particular and is often left in random places on or near the Google campuses for Google employees (and perhaps others) to use at their leisure)). I plan on using that Google bike to take me to where I parked my (privately owned) bicycle on the Google Cloud campus and then walking my bike to the Sunnyvale REI to get serviced tomorrow.

image: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/google_cloud_bike_sunnyvale_california_30oct2024.jpg

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31_OCTOBER_2024: I ordered a pair of bike tire liners from Amazon dot Com to have delivered to the Whole Foods Market in Sunnyvale and plan to go to the Sunnyvale REI to get the tire liners installed on my bicycle either after I take my bike into REI to have the flat tire repaired or at the same time I take the bike there to get its flat tire repaired (which basically amounts to getting a new inner tube installed to replace the old punctured tube). The tire liners (which were recommended to me by REI bike mechanics at the Dublin REI) are (allegedly) almost as effective for preventing flats as would be getting airless tires (and I read Amazon reviews of airless tires being (relatively) difficult to install/fit and ride due to increased resistance and weight as well as being significantly more expensive than standard inflatable tube tires).

image: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karlinarayberinger/KARLINA_OBJECT_extension_pack_24/main/amazon_order_bike_tire_liners_sunnyvale_31oct2024.jpg