Bike odometer: 1145
Weight lost: 62 lbs.
Hours of sleep last night: 8
Hours of sleep this afternoon: 4
Hours billed last week: 44
Current reading:: 2107 Curious Word Origins, Says & Expressions by Charles Earle Funk, The Book of Totally Useless Information by Don Voorhees, CSS Web Design for Dummies by Richard Mansfield
Recent listening: Coverville, The Mercury Anthology by Rod Stewart
Recent viewing: NBA Conference Semifinals, Countdown, The Newshour With Jim Lehrer, World Poker Tour, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Larry King Live, Saturday Night Live
Recent playing: Virus 2, Super Mario Bros. (emulated), Toejam and Earl (emulated)
Recently accomplished: Bike maintenance, sent Lalas, fixed caller ID
Imperative To Do: RMA old Tivo drive, backup Thomas, backup Graham, backup Tina, renew BTA membership, sift through inbox, pay bills, Bike Gallery, CDs to post office, make doctor appointment
NBA Conference Finals
Spurs vs. Jazz. Cavs vs. Detroit. There’s nobody I can cheer for but 2 teams I will cheer against. Crap.
Is that all you get for your money?
This blog and other websites on rynosoft.com have been up and down today because of the CPS office move. CPS SEO network infrastructure including the server hosting rynosoft.com was moved last night but the DNS changes did not propagate until this morning. Sometime later in the morning, power to our network was turned off by the electrical contractors in order to install the proper plugs for our UPS units. The network wasn’t restored for a couple of hours and then the server got unplugged from the network a couple of times. Evidently, this all lead the DNS to re-propagate incorrectly and I was unable to access rynosoft.com until just a few minutes ago. Hopefully, the interruptions are over.
CPS is moving Friday
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We are literally moving right across the street, SW Broadway to be specific. Our old address is 711 SW Alder and the new address is 621 SW Alder. Friday I’m putting the contents of my office on a book cart. The movers will transport it across the street over the weekend and I’ll probably be at the new office to unpack on Sunday.Â
For those of you who have lived on a different world during the last 30 years, the photograph is a parody of this famous Beatles album cover. The street we are walking across in the photo is not actually Broadway.
Note that CPS isn’t the first to parody Abbey Road: you can find many examples here, but this is my favorite. The Wikipedia article also mentions several parodies.
The Nerds Are Taking Over at NBC
NBC announced its new fall schedule. According to CNN:
Illustrating the difficulties in introducing new comedies, NBC said it will have only one new sitcom next season — and it didn’t even earn a spot on the fall schedule. “The IT Crowd” is about a group of people who work in technical services at a large corporation.
W00t! At last! 1337 jokes with many pr0n and MILF references! (Click here if you have no idea what I just said.)
Vital Statistics
Bike odometer: 1094
Weight lost: 62 lbs.
Hours of sleep last night: 8
Hours billed last week: 46
Current reading: 2107 Curious Word Origins, Says & Expressions by Charles Earle Funk, The Book of Totally Useless Information by Don Voorhees, CSS Web Design for Dummies by Richard Mansfield
Recent listening: Coverville
Recent viewing: NBA Conference Semifinals, Spiderman 3, CSI: Miami, Frontline
Recent playing: Virus 2
Recently accomplished: Mowed, edged and trimmed lawn, chopped down weeds, Mother’s Day planning with boys, erected gorilla rack in garage and did some organization
Imperative To Do: RMA old Tivo drive, backup Thomas, backup Graham, backup Tina, renew BTA membership, sift through inbox
Happy Mother’s Day
The boys helped me make breakfast for Tina this morning and we served it to her in bed. We may have woken her earlier than she wanted, but she was happy anyway. I think we’re going to see Spiderman 3 today in HD after we have lunch at Sweet Tomatoes.
Vital Statistics
Bike odometer: 1083
Weight lost: 62 lbs.
Hours of sleep last night: 8
Hours billed last week: 40.5
Current reading: 2107 Curious Word Origins, Says & Expressions by Charles Earle Funk, The Book of Totally Useless Information by Don Voorhees, CSS Web Design for Dummies by Richard Mansfield
Recent listening: Coverville, DrugMusic, Fresh Air
Recent viewing: My Name Is Earl, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Medium
Recent playing: Virus 2
Recently accomplished: Mowed lawn, cat box
Imperative To Do: RMA old Tivo drive, backup Thomas, backup Graham, backup Tina, bank deposit, renew BTA membership, sift through inbox, mow lawn, edge, trim
How did he do that?
Here’s a story that will leave you wondering. Perhaps he had secured the chain saw to a stationary object?
Morning Bike Commute
Distance: 10.9 miles*
Riding time: 54 minutes
Max speed: 23.7 mph
Average speed: 12.3 mph
Temperature: 58º
Route:
- 162nd to Halsey
- Halsey past I-84 overpass
- 80th to Glisan
- Glisan to 76th
- 76th to Everett
- Everett/Davis to Floral Place
- Floral Place across Burnside to Ankeny
- Ankeny to Grand
- Grand to Burnside
- Burnside to Broadway
- Broadway to office
*The cable to my bike computer is shorting, I think. This route is usually around 12 or 13 miles.