Dealing with Dell tech support is always entertaining and a royal pain in the ass.
Last year I leased a Dell Vostro 1500. Since the day I got it, it would randomly crash. After having it a month or so I finallly called support, they ran a bunch of diagnostics and they tell me I have to run the repair process on the operating system, and if that doesn’t fix the issue then I have to reinstall the OS.
I just converted my hardtail mountain bike to single speed. For those who don’t live in the Pacific Northwest, a single speed mountain bike might sound a bit crazy. I thought so when my fellow river guide & friend Eric showed up with his Marin single speed… I surely questioned the thinking behind it all… until now.
I was stoked to start riding again once we got to Eugene, OR. I was even more stoked because Carrie gave me her full suspension GT I-Drive 4.0 in exchange for a buying her a new hardtail. The first group ride I did, I couldn’t believe how many people were riding single speeds.It wasn’t till a few rides later that I realized why. The mud.
I was on a 3 hour tour with a couple of friends and half way through I was starting to have chain suck complications. I was cursing my way up a climb when my friend Davey said to me, ” I’ve got 2 words for ya… single – speed”. I went home, and a week later decided to go for it. I asked for some advice on cog and change wheel sizes from the Disciples of Dirt Yahoo Group and sought the expertise of Sheldon Brown.
For my single speed conversion I went with a 34 tooth Surly stainless steel chain ring, a 20 tooth Surly rear cog, a surly single speed conversion spacer kit, and a Surly Singulator chain tensioner.
I’m looking forward to riding this weekend and taking my newly converted single speed for her maiden voyage. I let you now how it turns out. After testing her out in front of the house I’m a little scared… the gear ratio is higher than I though it would be… but I guess there’s no better way to get my climbing legs back after be on the bench for 5 years.
What an amazing.. never told before story!
This one gave me a good chuckle. I’ve never been to a psychiatrist before (although many think I should have for a long time now), but I do know people who have. Go pay $80hr to a person, and they’ll do is repeat back to you everything you say.. just paraphrased… I don’t think so!
Well January is half over so you can only imagine that I’ve been completely swamped since I’m just getting out the my happy new post.
If you didn’t already know.. we moved to Eugene, OR. Had to leave Tehachapi.. that place was killing us, monetarily(? is this a word), mentally and physically. We’ve been here almost 2 months and moved to a place knowing not a single soul.. we love Eugene! Carrie has started up with a workout group called Eugene CrossFit. I myself have been getting out and running 3 days a week.. plus I ride my bike most places I need to go not mention finally being able to hit some single track. It feels great to be getting back into shape.
Found this article via AOL this morning.. The 12 Most Dangerous Emails
I think I mentioned in a previous post that I’d been laid out with a bad back these last few weeks. I’ve had chronic lower back problems for years. I’m recovering after 7 visits to the chiropractor and I’d say I’m about 95%.
I’ve got two friends who are about 10 – 15 years older than me who also have severe back problems. One recommended I pick check out Treat Your Own Back
I’m about to order both of these books hoping that I might be able to find some remedy to my back pain / back problems. I’d love to hear feedback.. if you have read / practiced anything out of either of these books, please leave your comments.
We just got back from a 6 day vacation to the Orlando Florida area. Dad lives in Clermont so the Sammy Russo clan, along with one of my sisters and her family and one of my brothers, flew down to Florida. We planned it to spend Fathers Day with my dad and one of our other sister who also lives in Clermont… So it was a mini family reunion as a fe of our siblings didn’t make it. We spent a few days at my dads, we did our own thing for a day and we all did Disney’s Magic Kingdom for a da plus 2 travel days.
All in all it was a fun trip. A little bit of family drama mixed in… but a good trip. The bummer is I lost our Canon PowerShot SD1000 digital camera. I downloaded everything from our arrival through Fathers Day, but lost our Putt-Putt Golf pics and our Disney pics. Stupid me left it in the rental car… I think. I remembered an hour later once we were in the airport and about to enter security. We had time so we tried to track it down with Budget Rental Cars. Nothing was turned in.. so one of the Budget Rental Car employees at Orlando International Airport is both a liar and a theif, althought they say they are still investigating it. However, we haven’t unpacked, but I’m pretty sure it got left in the car.
The upside is my dad spent the day with Carrie, the Kids & I at Disney, so he has some pictures on his Canon digital camera. I guess another upside would be that Carrie didn’t “dislike” the Canon PowerShot SD1000.. but she wasn’t truly fond of it (neither was I to be honest). So now we’re forced to go buy another one. It sucks because right now it’s not in the budget.
About a month ago or so I said to Carrie, part jokingly.. “Let’s buy a camper and just travel and live out of it for a while.” She wasn’t too fond of the idea.
Funny, the other night Carrie was surfing around the internet, on the Mothering.com Forum or MDC and came across a Christian family who decided to buy a diesel motor home, converted it to run on vegetable oil and they became ECO travelers and live where ever they want.
Carrie started getting excited about this.. after all I started it. So I said to her.. how is that gonna work with 3 kids and my business. She went out and found families with four kids doing just this. Turns out there are lots of families who lead a nomadic life with kids.
We might be a little crazy but, we are actually considering a simpler life of ECO RV Living & Traveling. I can honestly say we are dying here in Tehachapi and now with gas prices at nearly $5.00 a gal we are almost trapped. We believe the Lord put us here for a reason.. to find him and that we did.. now it’s time to move on.
We won’t be taking any drastic measures to rush out of here.. we’re probably looking at it as a 1yr goal. We at least have to stay her in Tehachapi until the baby is born in October.
