REALLY bad day...

That's a crappy day alright

It's all because of you that I made it through a 15 mile walk on Saturday and 11 on Sunday. No blisters either!

I'll bet that you get me through a 17 mile in a couple of weeks too.

All your fault. :)

Or I'll freight the Compaq to you so you can fix it apparently he doesn't want HP to go near it ever again so I'll recommend you for the repair.

He's a Yank and there is a strange 2100 USD sticker on the unit just below the Made For XP sticker. I would hazard a guess that that's the price he paid for the thing in May 2004. At the moment I'm even willing to pay the freight both ways. :p

Col ]:)

but you MIGHT get blisters on the next one! :)

I'm impressed! You're doing good things. I'm not doing so much..just getting through my days.

I don't 'fix' hardware. My 8 year old is better at that than I am..

You are a jerk. And you took the time to let us know that too. How special it must be in your world.

James

but I read your post so I don't want the Presario, thankyouverymuch!

Mine is a beeeeeeyyyyyoooooouuuutiful Packard Bell limited Ladies Edition cream and silver one....with its own matching mini mouse....

Pity it's being such a pain at the moment, it's not usually like this. Hasn't let me down much, but it's driving me to distraction at the moment!

:D

GG

That IS a bad day. It's bad when you can remember the date 26 years later!

I guess, all in all, I shouldn't complain. Everything is fine now, so all I have to do is sit back and wait for the next crisis!

that it's raining in London, has been since lunchtime and looks like carrying on for the rest of the afternoon.

I hold you, Mae, personally responsible!

How's your week starting?

Neil :)

On the plus side, however, it's cooler and we don't need the window open, the smell has decreased and I am nearly over my obsession with pizza. When listing toppings I want on my pizza, I have now stopped including another pizza.

I'm not sure that they'll take my order again, anyway, as I asked for 52 pepperoni slices prepared in a fractal pattern using the Koch snowflake equation. They also got a bit stroppy when I asked to rent a pizza on Friday. Was it my questions about pizza maintenance and repair?

I can relate - believe me I can relate.

I think a nuclear holocaust would be good by now. Unfortunately, I think it would take too long for my wonder story, but here is the short list.

Day started 4:30am
1. Woke up late, dogs did no-no on kitchen floor.
2. left late from work because of #1
3. got speeding ticket on way in to work as other cars flew by me, I got pulled over.
4. got in late to work and got yelled at for it (never late before and usually early/leaving late)
5. Major meetings day all day going from one to the other that accomplished nothing (you don't want the content)
6. Got yelled at by PM for not getting the job done on project, for not managing resources PM's way, etc.
7. In between 5, 6 and end of day - fielded questions from technical team on project.
8. Updated to-do list that grows and never shrinks
9. Went into last meeting at 7pm and yelled at PM that I will drop everything else to give PM what they want at that moment, who then told me to not be "snotty with" PM. Of course this was in front of the business partner and my TDM, and other project members.
10. Went home in rain storm. (9pm)
11. Cleaned kitchen floor for 2nd time (poor doggies couldn't hold it any longer).
12. Took doggies on exercise walk in rainstorm.
13. put doggies to bed.
14. started working on research and e-mails.
15. Dropped into bed (2am)
16. Start day again at 4:30am

My conclusion (and this is a typical day except for the me losing it and yelling part), time to lay down some ground rules about abusing J. Lupo's time.

The Telco has to sign a waiver saying teh cable has been located and correctly mapped out before anyone digs. If there's cable somewhere else, the Telco is at fault.

One of my employees (the one who was ill last week) is friends with the guy in the article. (Her friend was not the one wanted for armed robbery)

I guess I should be thankful that my bad day didn't come close to this!

http://www.daily-jeff.com/article.php?pathToFile=/articles/news/&file=_news1.txt&article=1&tD=

After a excavator ate my last one I've been using Clevo Chassis and building what I want in the NB's that I use. Much more processing power and I've yet to see many close in technical specs to my now 18 month old NB though the Macintels are getting close.

I went with a P4 with the last one but maybe on reflection I should have gone with one of the Centrinos but this has WiFI, Blue Tooth, a 17 inch TFT Monitor as well as a DVD Burner Dual Layer of course built in Web Cam. I only had to add a 3.4 GIG CPU, 1 GIG of RAM and a 80 GIG HDD then load it up.

Even my son can't break this one so it must be fairly robust. :0

Col ]:)

To climb up on a big yellow thing, fire it up, and knock stuff over.

I came close once. Was allowed to climb all over a D8 and play with the levers, but only because it was off. I remember noticing that the frame on the cabin was huge: three- or four-inch thick castings?

Edit: How'd that ENTER key get right next to the SHIFT key? :p

This also goes to explain why now I don't like the month of February

1. Early February 1994, Friday at 6pm I arrive home from a week long work conference. No lights on, no tv on - wait no tv, no lounge, no table, no bed, no furniture at all, no 6 year old son, and no wife. Took three days to find out where my wife and child were and why. THEN the trouble started, Family Law Court, solicitors, Child Support Agency, arrgh.

2. 10.00 am Friday 3 February 2006 - I see my doctor in Junee about a lump on the back of my head, in that cut away section right at the top of the spinal column. He calls a doctor in Wagga (the nearest major city, approx 40 km - 25 miles - away) then asks if I can drive to Wagga 'right now'. I say yes and get given a referal and an address in Wagga. Go to the surgeon in Wagga, taken straight in. Surgeon examines head and rings nurse to check first open surgery slot. Gets given a date, he asks 'Nothing earlier?' Turns to me and says "Best I can do is Monday the 13th - take care not to hit anything until then" - my skull goes yammer, yammer, yammer.

3. Monday 13th April - at the day surgery for the operation, the most scared I have ever been in my life. I've NEVER been under the knife before - 51 years old and still got my appendix and tonsils, etc. Skip to after the surgery. After I come round and the nurse sonfirms I am compus mentis a worried doctor tells me that he removed a lump the size of his thumb, NO I DON'T WANT TO SEE THE THING, it is NOT what they thought and he'll send it off to pathology as he's worried about what it is. HE'S WORRIED - they rush me around like a rocket as they are worried about the danger it represents and NOW they find out it's worse STILL. -- Correct, I had BIG trouble sleeping that night and for a few days.

4. Five days later they get the pathology and call me to tell me that (a.) he got out all that he SAFELY could, and (b.) it's a nuchral fibroma (could be mispelt) and is not malignant - ask is it benign and he says it's not malignant. Gee thanks doc that really helps. Translation of doc speak by nurse next day is - It's not malignant, YET.

I want to remove February from the calendar.

that would be a bit hard to treat in the mouth or stomach and HOW do you explain it to your doctor :p

I finally take a week off to "finish" the basement remodel that I started 3 months ago. Spend the whole week in 90+ degree heat doing the work. Friday the wife and family decide to go to the Jersey shore for the weekend. Sounds nice huh? At work my team is fighting an AC problem in the Data Center. By Wednesday they have the doors open and fans running to keep the heat down to 80. AC vender says nothing is wrong but is willing to install a backup unit to help out. Nobody thought to call me. Friday for no apparent reason we loose power and our UPS dies because the fans overloaded it. Nobody calls me. I finally make a call to another manager just to see how the week is going and find all this out. at 4pm on Friday. Oh yeah when the electrician finally showed up he screamed at my team about the fans and left. We fixed it all on Monday and this week is my week to explain why a 24/7 operation was down for 3 days.

I know you feel like 17 miles. I hate to be the one to tell you this but the average person walking at pace walks at a rate of 3.2 miles per hour. But you are doing better than me when I first started.

Our first three miles it was snowing. I hadn't learned about socks yet and a track suit was something I simply dId not own. I did have the foresight to get balanced walking shoes. In retrospect, it must have looked pretty funny. I was out there in a full length down coat, jeans (the WRONG thing to distance walk in!), and sweatshirt over a tee shirt. I know now that was a bad plan and why. At the end of three miles, I was certain that I was going to die and afraid I wouldn't! But I have felt that way at every mileage increase.

I can tell you that my partner and I have never felt better in our lives. I personally feel an increase in overall energy and am losing weight that found me years ago. There was a time when I contemplated naming my fat layers, now they are disappearing. I won't miss them.

If you decide to keep it up, consider investing in a good pair of walking shoes. They will protect your feet. This is a good thing.

I figure I'm getting about 3 miles per hour. I'm not quite back to where I was in the spring. And no kidding about the shoes! It never bothered me before, but the older I get the more I feel it in my feet. And I like my feet. I have to take care of them.

I have a 14" step program that I'm going to get back into this evening. I had been doing sooo good with all this, weight lifting, yoga, everything..then I just freaking quit. It's hard to start back up again, but I know the stress level is gonna fall once I do. Well, that and I'm so close to getting into my skinny jeans. :)

Why, I don't know. Maybe it's because I've got an X-1000R that still cranks after almost 20 years. I just clean the heads every 10 hours.

that is slow.

really slow

I walk at close to double that rate.
most people here would be at the 5 mile an hour rate.
[ of course, Vancouver is special, we have one of the most active populations in North America...and mothers all have incredible bodies, since pushing baby strollers up hill is such a good workout. ]:) ]

3.2 is consided to be an average walk speed. I know people that regularly walk at faster paces. I am not one of them.

One of the things that I train for is pace- between 3.2 and 3.4 MPH. I will be walking 20 miles a day for three consecutive days and I am an old broad. The pace is designed to get one through all 3 days with as little injury as possible.

I know that there are cities where the average pace exceeds this. Where I live, just walking is hazardous- drivers just don't bother with you. There are limited sidewalks. I mostly train in public parks with LOTS of trail. Other places, other things.

OK the older racing models that were little more than cut down 750s maybe, but my mid 1970s KH500 was a lovely machine and nice to handle in the Sydney traffic while still good for runs down to Goulburn and Melbourne. No danger unless you were stupid enough to go faster than the road or traffic or weather allowed - but then that is dangerous even on a 100cc bike.

I have been training since February. The walk happens Aug 18-20. I have been on a pretty consuming schedule for awhile- see reasons listed above.

In two weeks or so, we will walk 17 Sat/13 Sun. Two weeks later, we have 18 Sat/15 Sun- the litmus test to see if you can survive 20/20/20. There are times that I think that cancer and chemo were a walk in the park, comparatively.

I look at it this way. I am pretty disciplined where food is concerned, especially through the holiday season. This year, I might manage a cookie without bloating to the size of the average dirigible. (Blimp, for those without a handy dictionary) You will be back in your skinny jeans before you know it!

Incidentally, you mentioned yoga. Do you know of resources for a beginner? I am thinking it would be a great way to increase flexibility- something I am lacking more and more these days! It will also be a workout that I can do after the snow starts.

Shoes are VERY important. So are socks. I wasn't kidding about 20 pair- and more in reserve. I wear about 8 pair a week. Change them after about 8 miles, your feet will love you. Try a dry wicking sock with arch support. Very nice. Get good shoes and look for stores that have a podiologist available to evaluate your feet. After much trial, effort and $$$ I finally did that and my feet don't hate me near as much.

I know that you know all this. It isn't often that I actually run across someone who is patient with my sock addiction....

Edited- I WANT SPELL CHECK!!!

Do you really want an answer to that Question? ;)

I've ridden everything from a Norton Farther Bed to a MV Augusta with a fair smatterings if Ducatis and Vincents in the mix and you have to ask me about a [b]Quick-As-Saki?[/b] :)

Nice things to say The tires don't go flat quickly when the originals are fitted. The things go quite well in a straight line and when a corner of any kind comes up you have to stop the thing and jack it up and turn it the way that you want it to go. The road surface has to be totally smooth anything as big as an Ant walking across the road is nearly fatal. The Mach 3 accelerated quite quickly even if you couldn't keep it in a straight line you had to approach these like Drag Bikes provided you ended up at the end of the straight it didn't matter how far your really travelled it was enough that you survived the journey. :p

My current 82 900 SS Ducati has never given me a speeding ticket on Country Roads mainly because I shake it into top gear and travel along about 6K RPM a little over 220 KPH I don't think that the cops bother they think that they'll be scraping me up off the side of the road latter so why bother chasing when they already know that they are not going to catch me. That's about the most economical that it runs at and gives me about 26 MPG maybe slightly more but even at minimum revs in third I'm well over the 100 KPH Speed Limit and I can go through a tank of fuel in under 80 KMS. So I no longer bother worrying about speed limits I just ride at the most fuel efficient speed. Pity that the tires don't last all that long but sticky Pirelli's give excellent grip and are worth every cent. The last time I did a country trip I arrived in Townsville about 9 hours after leaving Brisbane with a melting rear tire. I had to stay in Townsville till a replacement tire was freighted up as they didn't stock those sticky tires up there. I wore out that tire on the trip back but it was fun. :p

Col ]:)

I'm just about 5'3'' so my short little legs can't go too fast. I walk in a park with lots of hills..and, well, I'm not 20 anymore. Although, when I can convince the girl to walk with me (she IS 20) she bitches because she can't keep up.

Tig, I started taking yoga lessons a couple years ago with a local instructor. I haven't used any yoga videos or anything like that, so I don't know what to recommend. My mother has been doing yoga for years, I'll ask her what she recommends.

I understand the sock obsession. My husband has one, he can't go more than a week or two without buying socks or black t-shirts. Very strange. It does make it easier for me to feed my purse and shoe obsession (which is not at all strange).