Hey

Funny to think that I started a blog so long ago and like most things on the internet, it has faded and died... I guess I never did anything interesting enough or controversial enough to really spark interest in people to comment on.
Oh well, guess I'll just stick to posting on here every now and then; much easier with a better phone and app now.

Work

I love being a part of a conference call that I have no reason to be involved in! /sarcasm

Ehh?

This thing still alive?

Look, a picture...

What has happened as of late.

I often forget that I have this blog, and as such it gets neglected...
So what's new? For the first me I got to use the homebrewed tire boot I've been carrying around with me on every ride. The unfortunate thing about it was that my front tire got ripped open in not one place, but two, guess I need to carry more boots :-P
Oh, and what's the best part you may ask? I was going at more than 40 mi/h! As seen in the posted graph (graph is labeled with kilometers, but it's just a glitch in the software, supposed to be miles).
Crazy thing is that I didn't 'eat it' (aka, smash my face into the pavement) and came to a controlled stop...
Anyway, the battery on my phone is about to give out...

Photo Review

It's been forever, so here is a quick post of some of the bike related pictures I've taken as of late.

Read Immediately, Confirmed Virus [this is not SPAM or any other crap]

For those who run a Windows computer, this sounds familiar from a few years ago. My judgement, after reading the linked page below, leads me to believe that I had something very similar happen to me a couple of years ago. Believe me, it is very hard to get rid of this 'infection' and almost impossible if you are not computer savvy; and while you're trying to get rid of the virus/trojan, the author has your personal information and is using it for things you don't want to think about. It was a big hassle for me and I don't want any of you to have to deal with it. Just makes me glad my system is now Ubuntu (Linux) and Kassy's an Apple. (See below.)

 

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 9:34
Subject: FW: Read Immediately, Confirmed Virus
Importance: High

True or not, doesn't hurt to be aware. According to SNOPES this is true.


-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 7:59
Subject: Fwd: Read Immediately

READ IMMEDIATELY.....VERY IMPORTANT

Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on. This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton Please send it to everybody you know who has Access to the Internet.  You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled "Here you have it" If you open the file, a message will appear on your screen saying: 'It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful....'

Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC, and the person who sent it to you will gain access to your Name, e-mail and password. This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the antivirus software's are not capable of destroying it.

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner'.

PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, and ask them to PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!

THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES.

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/hereyouhave.asp

A Little Test

I'm testing out a new blogger app for my phone. I like it better already because the typing is 'smarter' and the interface is cleaner. But then again, this one is made by Google.

New Light

I got this a while ago, but it's also been far too long since my last post.

Nite Rider 700 lumen lamp with the race battery.

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Storage, Version 2

Now more spread out along the wall, and opening up access to the rest of the built in shelves. Maddock even has his own spot on the wall for his bike.

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What I've Been Doing

With life being as busy as it has been, between work and the family, it seems like I never have any time to pause and scatter out a small blog post. But I have been riding into work every day, about 15 miles total daily. This here is interesting; it's the summary from my log:

Total Distance:            979.07

Total Time:              65:40:31

Moving Time:             59:53:29

Number of Tracks:             138

Average Speed:              14.91

Average Moving Speed:       16.35

Elevation Gain:            30,546

Min Elevation:               -190

Max Elevation:                819

  

Average Track Distance:      7.09

Longest Track Distance:     25.05

Average Max Speed:          25.79

Highest Max Speed:          43.84

Time Spent Stopped:       5:47:02

% of Time Stopped:          8.81%

Of course these numbers only include the days that I was able to have a good GPS signal, which was most days. But it is nice to no longer be "a slave to the numbers" and just judge my speed on my own and not be that concerned with logging the data because I can always upload it to the log later, because the phone saves the record automatically. One hell of a run-on sentence I know, but it gets the point across I think.

That's all for now, I've been typing this intermittently while at work so my train of thought is incredibly broken.

Stem Fail

Okay, I know that is has been a long time since I've posted, but I had to share this right away.
Here's the short of it: I was leaving my office and saw that my tire was flat, sucks but no big deal. I found a very small thorn had made a pin-hole, so pull the thorn, but in the spare tube, CO2 blast and I'm on my way right? Well the rubber at the base of the stem on my spare ripped through, don't know how it happened, but I wasted a CO2 thing on it.
So alright, it was just a pin-hole, put on a stick-on patch and fix it right when you get home; this time I figured to just take the time and pump it up with my hand pump that I keep in my backpack for for really bad days (like this one). I had gotten the tire up to about 100 psi (7 bar) when something happened. That something is what you see in the photo above. The stem snapped, inside and out!
Arg... I'm now waiting for Kassy to come pick me up so we can go shopping.....

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Poor Zipper Pull

I will miss you.

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The Sights

Okay, so my blogging has been a bit hit or miss recently... alright it always has been. But anyway, I just wanted to share that I was able tlo get these two shots the other day on my ride home. It's just a reminder that even though I may not have the best scenery on my commute, I do get to see some pretty cool stuff.

this first picture you really can't see what I'm trying to get the picture of, but for the second shot I was able to be at a stop sign and could zoom in a bit (4x digital zoom) and get a much better picture of what was flying around, a MV-22 Osprey.

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Google: Navigation vs. My Tracks

Yesterday I got out of work early, and Kassy was already out and about with the kids and one of her friends, so I thought I would take a completely different route home instead of always going on Kearny Villa.
First off, let me say that I will never be taking this way again. The road surface was horrible and there wasn't even anything nice to look at. Well, maybe there could have been some nice things along the way, but the traffic was taking most of my attention, even though almost all of the drivers we considerate and really did share the road with me.
But moving on, as you may know I have an Android phone and use it for everything. In the car I like using Google Navigation over the Garmin because of it's constant updates and live traffic info, plus I like the user interface better. Another GPS application I love and use everyday is My Tracks. The app records and displays statistics such as speed, distance, elevation, and several others.
When I thought about taking a new route, I wondered how it would work out using both of these programs together so that I could record my route and have the turns navigated for me. Well as it turns out, these two fight each other when used at the same time. Now I don't think that they fight each other for the GPS signal because there were times that both applications were working together, as you can see below. The blue line represents the route I traveled, and the red line is where My Tracks was able to record my position.

So anyway, this makes me think that they were using just too much memory and the one running in the background (My Tracks) was dropped out here and there. So it may be possible to run these together on a phone with more RAM than the Motorola Droid.

I was able to approximate that the route was 16.5 miles, but I wave no idea how long it took or average speed so I'm going to just remember it as a ride and not try to log it. If I log something I'd like it to be accurate, and I'm trying to not be such a 'slave to the numbers' as I used to be.

I still need to clean my bike some time. And I really want to go out on a mountain bike ride, but who knows when I'll get a chance to do that.

Oh, and Kassy also talked to a guy that rides with a group around the flight line of MCAS Miramar during lunch on Tuesdays. They meet up at Comm Squadron, so now I just need to find that.

New Blogger-droid

The editor that I use on my phone to publish post has been changed up a bit since I last used it. Obviously it's been a long time. I'm sorry but I just haven't really thought of anything to write about recently.

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Versus TV commercial

Busy

It has been one busy work week that just doesn't end. This weekend was the drill weekend for July and we led the reserves through both swim qual and a CFT. It made for some pretty long days and I can't wait until our comp days (compensation) this Thursday and Friday to get some much needed time off. Seems that my body is finally starting to get used to the idea of riding everyday again, my speed has gone down a bit recently because of the PT (physical training) program we have going here at work, but it's comming back.
Anyway, I just wanted to make a short entry today because it feels like it's been a really long time.

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Lake Miramar

As promised, here is my small write-up about my trip to Lake Miramar with Maddock. It's small now because it has taken me so long to get it written up on here. I blame work and le Tour de France (watching it right now) for me not finding the time to write this.
Anyway, Kassy had gone out on a small shopping trip with Callum and some friends so Maddock and I were left to spend some time together and I thought it would be a great idea to go to the lake. I loaded up the van with our bikes and the trailer. First thing when we got out to the lake, Maddock to ride his bike.

Unfortunately it's really hard to get a good picture of a two year old riding his bike while you're walking (and sometimes jogging) beside him. No worries though, because I got a video (we were looking for the ducks).

Would you believe that this kid rode a mile all by himself? He really did, I didn't realize it until later when I took him out in the trailer and I was looking at the distance markers. But he really did do it, all on his own, even up some small hills.

After his ride we ate some lunch that was more of a small snack because he wanted to go feed the ducks. And I did my best to get a few pictures of that.

I love this last one, I didn't even know I got this last shot until I got home and was looking over the pictures.

Maddock really enjoyed the 5 mile loop around the lake and even wanted to do another lap, so I turned around and went back the other way. Well, as expected, about half way back around the lake I look back and there he is.

Passed out and not going to wake for anything, all that was left for me to do was head back to the car and get everything put in to head back home. I was good timing too, because out of habit I put the chain on the front door without thinking that was the only way for Kassy to get back in the house. I got a phone call on my way back home about it. In the end though, Maddock had a great time, and I can't wait to go back.

[Every picture and video in this post was taken with my phone, awesome huh?]

Dirty

It's so dirty!
Should I clean it or take it to a place and get it cleaned?
I wouldn't have to pay me to clean it, now that I think about it, I need to wash the van too.

Still planning to write about Maddock and me at the lake, just need to sit down with my computer, I tend to forget about it sometimes because of the capabilities of this phone.

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Salute? I don't get it.

Okay, so here's a picture of the top of my front fork. See that Sergeant chevron right there? Well I put it there to be funny and add a tiny touch of motto to the bike. Seems though that the gate guards can't see them, nor can they see the E5 and SGT on my ID card that I have to show them. Thursday I had a Gunny salute me, third time this has happened to me. I have plans to write a big artilce about my trip to Miramar Lake with my 2 year old son, Maddock. I'll need to do that on a computer though.

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