Heading Home!

Finally, after far too long in Vegas I'm heading back to the UK. Good
times.

In the US Again

So here I am in Vegas, the oasis of gambling in the desert - the place that wouldn't be here at all if human beings didn't have quite such a remarkable appetite for iniquity.

Creeping Progress

A new way of writing this time, part of the approaching convergeance
that I find so scary. More another time. I'll fix the character set
issues soon. Miller out.

New Progress Netbook?

Am starting a new FC11 install and it appears to have recognised the old partition. Is this progress? Will I be able to save the Win partition? Going through a wired net-install as we speak. This time I was smarter and 1) connected to all the FC11 repositories, 2) removed all the optional languages at install and 3) decided against any of the 'potted' software builds. I'll add stuff as and when I need it. Update later.

New NC10 Hassles....

Still fighting with the netbook, struggling to get a bootable session
from the kernel images on the disk. Good news is that I can at least
see the installation. Hanging at boot. If I hadn't spent so long
optimising the Linux side and storing data on the W*ndows side I'd be
tempted to wipe and start again. Grrr. More cycling soon I think. Car
now fixed and working well. In fact I think I like it. Lots of DIY
over the bank holiday. :-)

Commute Compare

Went to work on my fixie today after not riding for a long time. Had a big blow-up on the way home, with totally empty legs due to poor eating at work, an empty bottle and a howling headwind. Ended up grovelling. Nonetheless I actually felt OK on the way to work. Attached graph is a direct comparison: 25SEP08 (red) vs. 25AUG09 (purple). Stats are (last year's in brackets): Mean HR= 167 (162), Duration 1:09 (1:11), Mean Speed: 23.6 (23.1). So overall I'm not as fit, looking at recovery, max HR and the flat sections... but I was going a teeny bit quicker.

Long Day

Not sure why, but today was really tiring. Achey and stuff. Need more power in the brain dept as well. Went the long way round on the 'S again, only two frustrations were that 1) I can't relax on the bike and a couple or three weeks away seem to have undone all my confidence in the grip available and 2) got stuck behind a very slow Police van for the last 4 or 5 miles of my route into work. There were a few marginal overtaking options, but I didn't have the chutzpah to go for it. The driver seemed to be watching me in his mirror more than watching the road! Always irritating when they do that.... News in the house is a new telly, new planters out the front and a newly-green front door. Chicken coop arrives tomorrow, with little feathered friends to follow at the weekend. Maybe :-)