Knowing Where You’ve Been Makes Knowing Where You’re Going Easier

Posted On Sunday, July 23rd, 2006 By David Veatch

I finally broke down and did it. On the way home from Home Depot (yeah, I know… I never go there) I stopped by the Trek store to see if they had a screw. See… I bought a frame mounted tire pump a while back, but the screws weren’t long enough to go through both the pump bracket and the cages to secure into the frame. Hoping maybe they had longer .8 screws, I stopped by. Well… they had one. That’s right. One. That was OK though, b/c one of the two I got at Home Depot didn’t work. I can’t figure that one out, but it’s true. I still don’t like it on account of two different types of screw heads… oh well, it’ll work for now. So that’s finally taken care of, but what’s really cool is that while I was looking for the screw at the Trek store, I picked up a 2 liter Camel Bak, and a Cateye Enduro 8 computer! No more guessing how fast we’re going, or what our average is, what time we started and stopped, or how far we’ve gone! I can’t wait until next weekend to try the Lawrence route again more »

At Home, On the Road and Toes Tapping

Posted On Friday, July 21st, 2006 By David Veatch

Lots going on lately, so I’ll be taking advantage of a few quiet moments, strung together, to give a rundown. Music. Three things happened, all at around the same time that caused me to revisit my music collection. 1. The Forges (both hers and mine) died a sudden and unexpected death when trying to move songs over to the 1GB expansion card I bought for them. Oh well… they kinda sucked anyway. 2. To replace the Forges, I picked up Nano’s for both the Woman and myself (new Target card – 10% off entire purchase). 3. I accidentally deleted the majority of my ripped music. Sometimes, symbolic links in unix are confusing. I was reminded of the time Stu lost most, if not all her ripped and downloaded music due to hard drive failure. It’s a dreadfully hollow and sinking feeling. So, I’ve revisited and revamped my .mp3 collection. Following the advice of my brother, I re-ripped all the albums to 256 bit, and have hit the downloaded tracks with tags. Between custom perl scripts and a couple of downloaded tools, I’m getting damn near having everything tagged to taste. Nano. I really like it. I think it’s going to more »