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18 Apr 2012
personal: 

Yesterday's triumphant ~40 miles of bike riding resulted in two things: Congratulatory "atta boy" pizza AND ambitious goals to do it again today. Turns out, though, that sore out-of-shape legs (or at least only marginally in-shape legs) don't really want a repeat performance the next day. So where's that leave us?

Distance: 23km
Calories: ~1100

It's better than a poke in the eye with a stick, but still kinda under whelming when compared to yesterday. Maybe tomorrow will be better.

18 Apr 2012

Biking! Yay!

personal: 

Now that the weather is improving (no longer finger crushingly cold, nor gear destroyingly wet) I've been trying really hard to get on the bike more. It's hard to do when you don't have a partner goading you into it, but still, I'm trying. Over the last six months I've been using a friend's blog tracing his training for the annual AIDS Ride for inspiration. And yesterday a friend from the office joined me for an early morning ride. Right now I'm feel full of myself for riding ~40 miles yesterday. The morning commute ride is not interesting at all, but the Crystal Springs ride and the evening ride to the house were both fun:

18 Apr 2012

Update: It seems that Oracle has somehow resolved this problem. Web Server 7.0.14 is available here. I guess I need to go back to supporting this small community of users.

16 Apr 2012

I'm still alive

personal: 

I've been told that people have been looking here fruitlessly for content. Since, like, January of 2011.

I'm still here. Just not very conversational. Sorry about that.

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