I’ve only slept in one of the three Saturday mornings so far. I’ve been in “maintenance mode” since March where the weekend distance is no different than the weekday. Now, the weekend long distance either doubles or triples from the norm, depending on what the schedule dictates. After doing the longer ones my legs are [...]
The screen shows me how many push-ups I need to do. I just laugh because there’s no way I could do that many. Maybe if it was the first set, yes, but the last set? No. Update – 08/02/2010 – The apps are re-priced at $1.99. Update – 08/01/2010 – The app as well as [...]
Part of the return process involves running a diagnostic program on the bad hard-drive. Per their website, 20% of returned drives are actually bad. It would have been helpful if I read that part before purchasing a replacement drive, transferring the data to it and spending an additional two hours formatting data off the bad [...]
The replacement hard drive arrives in the mail. It’s warm as it has been baking on my front doorstep for several hours. After spending an hour getting past the POST 21 error messages, it’s time to copy the contents of the failing hard-drive to the good one. I know one of the commercial programs that [...]
The distance isn’t long enough to make two laps around the neighborhood this time. I’m not complaining. Really, I’m not. I tempted to sleep-in and do this in the evening.
Pulling out the video card to reseat two memory sticks, I mutter, “I wish I had a Mac” as I wouldn’t be dealing with this crap. I quickly dismiss the thought as Macs are computers with training wheels (e.g., they just work) and resume trying to fix this new problem. I must have nudged something [...]
Half way into the second loop around the neighborhood last Saturday morning, I think to myself, “I just want to go home.” Things begin to warm up as the sun climbs higher into the sky. People are doing their routes on the opposite side of the road. I think of how it will feel doing [...]
If I head out the door by 6 a.m., I should be finished by 8 a.m. The time required to do laps around the neighborhood grows over the next several months and by September if I leave at the same time, I should be done by 10 a.m.
One of the new folks who started working last week attempted an ultra in 2009. His first name is a bit unusual so I Googled him out of curiosity. Mention of the ultra is listed in the About section of his blog. Although he quit half way into it due to foot problems, he traveled [...]
An abbreviation for Hard Disk Drive. The computer screen glows to life with a task bar at the bottom of the desktop and a dialog message. I must have left the computer on all day again. You can’t tell because it’s just as quiet on as it is off. As the monitor comes to full [...]