what I did on my holidays
I've been rather busy doing stuff.
I helped with the engine change on SB's car. This went well except we forgot to transfer the module strapped to the engine, would it start? No sirs. After that it was fine until there was the faulty spanner icon. By this point it was around -5 degrees C outside and we decided that perhaps a garage could just plug in their little computer thing which would tell them which sensor had stopped playing. More news later...
I got a processor for my shuttle box, a cute little 3.2GHz P4. Main reason for this was I'd painted myself into a corner as I was going to rob the CPU from the old Dell Optiplex. This turned out to be too old to be compatible for the motherboard I'd bought so now the Dell is housed in the breadbox which still needs the Ubuntu logo/grille done on the front; breathe...
I finally got around to looking for a new bike, after looking at the sorry state of my old one which has been sitting in a damp garage since its last use. Picture will follow. I went shopping with my budget firmly capped at £250. I went to Dales in Glasgow, the chap was very nice but kept showing me a) Bikes that were around £450 b) Bikes that did not comply with my desires. Went to Evans out at Braehead and met up with an evil friend who did not talk me down after I begun to fixate on a bike which was considerable more expensive than i wanted to pay. In fact, he may as well have been mockingly shouting "jump!"
I bought the bike.
It's nice.
I went into collect it today, where upon I saw a girl manage to blag a 10% discount. That my dears, is the price of a lock, and I realised that it is indeed a dog eat dog world.
The shuttle box has been set up as a dual boot with XP and Ubuntu and is just waiting for me to connect the 320 Gb SATA HDD and start adding the software. Need to make a list.
I want to do my routing and go out on my bike.
Bike image stolen from here
I helped with the engine change on SB's car. This went well except we forgot to transfer the module strapped to the engine, would it start? No sirs. After that it was fine until there was the faulty spanner icon. By this point it was around -5 degrees C outside and we decided that perhaps a garage could just plug in their little computer thing which would tell them which sensor had stopped playing. More news later...
I got a processor for my shuttle box, a cute little 3.2GHz P4. Main reason for this was I'd painted myself into a corner as I was going to rob the CPU from the old Dell Optiplex. This turned out to be too old to be compatible for the motherboard I'd bought so now the Dell is housed in the breadbox which still needs the Ubuntu logo/grille done on the front; breathe...
I finally got around to looking for a new bike, after looking at the sorry state of my old one which has been sitting in a damp garage since its last use. Picture will follow. I went shopping with my budget firmly capped at £250. I went to Dales in Glasgow, the chap was very nice but kept showing me a) Bikes that were around £450 b) Bikes that did not comply with my desires. Went to Evans out at Braehead and met up with an evil friend who did not talk me down after I begun to fixate on a bike which was considerable more expensive than i wanted to pay. In fact, he may as well have been mockingly shouting "jump!"
I bought the bike.
It's nice.
I went into collect it today, where upon I saw a girl manage to blag a 10% discount. That my dears, is the price of a lock, and I realised that it is indeed a dog eat dog world.
The shuttle box has been set up as a dual boot with XP and Ubuntu and is just waiting for me to connect the 320 Gb SATA HDD and start adding the software. Need to make a list.
I want to do my routing and go out on my bike.
Bike image stolen from here
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