My car rolled over 1,000 miles on Wednesday. My bike got a nice giant nail in it, again, earlier in the week and I’ve been busy each night and haven’t gotten around to fixing it. I do have a spare tube, but that still has a hole in it from one of the previous encounters… Read more
I quite wanted to make good use of the long weekend (albeit 3 days only) here to get out and travel a bit, but I never really committed to anything early enough to actually organise it… but I was still determined to do something (ergo the bike riding on Saturday). Today, on the suggestion of… Read more
On Saturday I went for a ride up towards the reservoir in the hills west of here. I was interested to see how difficult it would be, to gauge my relative fitness since riding up there last time I was here. I was fairly pleasantly surprised – I rode the entire way from home to… Read more
Disclaimer: I see no harm in doing this as shown below, simply for the sake of changing the colours and [playfully] the strings, but of course don’t be a jackarse and subvert the app for other uses or whatever. Also, if anyone knows a way to use your own CSS and XML files without having… Read more
I finally got off my posterior and rejoined the gym last Tuesday or somesuch. I haven’t actually been yet… I thought there was some process to be done before I could officially use the sign-in machine, but, I haven’t heard anything thus far, so I guess I’m all set already. So, I might go tomorrow… Read more
I didn’t get up to much yesterday – just watched a movie, did some washing, played far too much Halo; all the usual. I did even less work today; I had intended on going for a bike ride and maybe catching a movie in the evening (Stardust caught my eye by way of it’s trailer,… Read more
I couldn’t get the quality up where I wanted it, but DVD Player and VLC both have the same issues playing directly from the source… I don’t recall all these minor glitches when we were watching it in the hanger, but that doesn’t surprise me – computer DVD drives typically suck at playing DVDs. Anyway,… Read more