logged in, might as well post
Date: Jul 28th, 2006 12:58:22 am - Subscribe
Mood: almost asleep
I got that email about the anonymous comment. This puzzled me because I never allow anonymous comments so I went to check it out. I guess it turns out that everything that was made before this option is by default allowing of anonymous comments. No problem, I just finnished editing them out. Easy due to tabs. The main reason I don't allow anonymous comments, is I don't want to be spammed.
So now I'm here and logged in, I might as well blog. Keep my account active. Whoohoo.
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Wipe out
Date: Apr 23rd, 2006 11:33:18 am - Subscribe
I wiped out on my bike yesterday. It was quite strange how it happened so I will describe it.
I had been riding for about an hour over the various trails I normally go on. I had to detour a couple of times due to the rain leftovers, but it wasn't nearly as bad as Friday. I was about to finish up and was almost to the end of my riding time. It was very rocky along this part of the trail, but I've gone here several times. It's actually pretty uncomfortable because of all the bumpiness. Due to the mud though, I was tired and going slower than normal. It was actually extremely slow. I was almost stopped, started to pedal a little harder and all of a sudden I find myself going over the handlebars. I landed on my right arm on a sharp limestone rock.
I got some scrapes there and a cut on the edge of my elbow. My knees are scraped also. But worst I had a nasty looking lump about 4 inches towards my wrist from my elbow. I tested it and it would move back and forth. That's good. I also felt the bone to try to see if I could feel any fractures. It feels whole. I'm pretty sure I didn't hurt anything too bad, but there is an ugly bruise where the lump was. The lump is now gone. My right arm still is sore and hurts when I lean on it.
I am not sure exactly what happened, but I have a theory. As I go regularly through this area, I go pretty fast, so I'm bouncing and bumping along with no problems. It's uncomfortable, but it never occurred to me that i would go head over the handlebars. When I was going very slow, I came upon one of the rocks that stick out about 4-6 inches. Since I was going very slow, when the front wheel came in contact, there was none or very low upward momentum. It was like I just rode into a wall. The front wheel being stopped, but still with forward momentum, the back wheel could only go forward. I did too. The position of the bike at the end was the front wheel facing forward but the rest of the bike facing opposite of where I was going.
This was a first for me. Though, I have wiped out many times since I first learned to ride, I had never gone over the handlebars. It sucks.
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Today's Date
Date: Apr 6th, 2006 3:52:36 am - Subscribe
Did you miss it? 04-05-06; 4-5-6. It's kind of neat.
It means that gravity was reversed for 4 pico seconds, at 5 minute intervals, every 6th hour. Central standard time, of course. 
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Things to change
Date: Apr 5th, 2006 10:19:41 am - Subscribe
For the past year or so, I've been going to sleep around 4-7am. It's been working out ok, but I've been trying to switch it up so that I awake around 8am. It's very hard. Just last night I was extremely tired and went to sleep around 10:45pm, and slept 3 hours. So now I am awake again. It's like my bio clock is set for my habit. If I do switch it up for a couple of days, inevitably, I get reset back to how I was. This is very hard. If I pull an allnighter to fix it that way, I usually sleep something like 12-15 hours the next day and go back to 'normal.'
Next thing I need to do is break the caffeine habit. I'm sure this is contributing to my sleep change problem, but it's hard. If I go without, it's like I wake up with my head in fog or sleep more then 12 hours. I need that caffeine. After a couple of days I get that bad headache and after another couple of days I should be clear. But due to the easy combo availability of caffeinated drinks and that I don't cook much, I usually get some caffeine.
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Spaceys 06
Date: Mar 28th, 2006 2:01:59 pm - Subscribe
I just voted in the Spaceys 06 as seen on the Cnet blog. Therefor I now contribute to that terrible trend of blogging the blog. Notwithstanding, but adding my content, here are my votes.
Favorite Movie: Serenity
*Favorite TV Show: Stargate SG-1
*Favorite TV Ensemble Cast: Stargate SG-1 - Season 9
Favorite New TV Characters: Vala Mal Doran - Stargate SG-1
$Favorite Video Game: Resident Evil 4
Favorite Action Sequence: Star Wars Ep III: Revenge of the Sith (Anakin/Kenobi light saber)
Favorite FX: Star Wars Ep III
That was with the given choices.
* I would have preferred Stargate Atlantis.
$ I would have preferred Bard's Tale.
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Jello
Date: Mar 27th, 2006 2:04:46 am - Subscribe
boogidaboogida: Dschinghis Khan - Moskau
I made jello today. It was the first time ever!* Maybe when I was a wee little one I got to stir, but today I did it all by my self.
*The time I failed to make tequila jello shots does not count. It only counts if you eat it, not drink it.
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Citizenship Test
Date: Mar 22nd, 2006 11:46:34 pm - Subscribe
I took it too so I might as well post the banner. I missed 2. Embarrassing.
You Passed the US Citizenship Test |
 Congratulations - you got 8 out of 10 correct! |
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Ubuntu, dissappointment
Date: Feb 15th, 2006 5:21:34 am - Subscribe
boogidaboogida: I've got the upgrade fever
Things were going really good in Ubuntu Linux. I got most of my hardware set up. I got xvids to work. I got Enlightenment and Fluxbox set up. I compiled a new kernel...
There is one problem though and it seems to be a current bug. I am unable to mount my 3rd hard drive. I've got another 120GB of storage and I want to use it, but unfortunately I cannot. As it looks now, I will have to hold off on making the transition to Linux.
It's not that I hate Microsoft either. Windows 2000 is an awesome operating system. I like it very much. Not many file managers can come close to the ease and power of Windows Explorer. Unfortunately with Vista around the corner, support for Windows 2000 will probably go the way of Windows 98. Meaning no more security patches and updates. I'm going to need a new OS, and Linux is the way. I figured might as well start now as later. Plus I actually like linux. The command line and things you can do are great. The look and feel is nice as well. Hopefully, the already mounted bug will be fixed or somebody will find a workaround for it.
This short trial gave me some new experience in partitioning though. I never before setup Linux across several partitions. It was actually pretty easy. Now I know how to do it, so I can partition my drive accordingly with ntfs and be able to quickly make the transition to dual booting.
I will leave my current partitions as is for about a couple of weeks in hope someone can help me fix it. After that it is back to all ntfs. I need that space.
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