Post-Apocalyptic Notes

The world ended on Saturday.  Oddly this has happened before.  I seem to recall a big party for the end of the world.  That one happened back in the 1970s.  I’m not clear on the dates and details of that one.  (It was a very good party!)

I’m having trouble noticing any differences.  I’ve been told that this is because I missed the Great Recall Notice in the Sky.  Be that as it may, I’m enjoying the aftermath of the Apocalypse just fine, thank you very much.  Went for a nice ride yesterday evening. 

The early morning is still a bit on the cool side for my taste.  Perhaps that’s fallout from the recent end of the world.

On the other hand, proponents of the Mayan calendar maintain that we will have to wait until after the next general election for the real end of the world.  According to the experts, the Mayan “Long Year” calendar ends, very abruptly, on either December 21, 2012, or December 23, 2012.  Both schools seem to have a specific hour and minute, but I don’t speak or read Mayan, so I cannot translate that part.

What I don’t understand is the confusion.  I mean, if it is possible to calculate the End of the World with such precision, why the discrepancy in the timing?  Why the missing day?  Perhaps we’re not thinking about an Apocalypse after all.  Could it be the Mayan Calendar actually predicted an Acapulolypse?

{For those not familiar by the phenomena under its theological technical name:  An }

{Acapulcolypse occurs when the party (usually involving drinks with umbrellas and }

{fruits) starts on Friday evening, and really gets going on Saturday.  Things get         }

{fuzzy on Sunday, and the victim awakens on Tuesday, with no vague idea of what  }

{happened to Monday.                                                                                                  }

Let us pause for a moment and reflect on the meaning of all this.  Just what is meant by the EOTW?  Does it mean the weather gets bad?  How about earthquakes?  Perhaps Shimano will stop producing wonderfully precise drivelines and weirdly designed wheelsets?  Maybe Campagnolo Veloce™ group parts will start working properly?  (Now that would be a truly apocalyptic event!)  Or is it even possible that Grant Peterson would bring out a full-carbon touring frame?  Maybe tri-athletes will start maintaining their bicycles, and all the Freds out there will stop blasting through stop signs.  We shall just have to wait and see.