Monthly Archives: April 2005

Mission accomplished

2005-04-03 – 12:16

The day was by no means calm when I started at 1000 this morning, and the wind picked up slowly from there. It wasn’t anything like the 60 MPH gusts we had yesterday, but the unsheltered sections where I was riding in to the wind were still pretty tough. My 28.4 mile loop took me [...]

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Windy riding

2005-04-02 – 13:03

Today, after two false starts when I went back home for more layers to keep the wind out, I went on a ride, but only managed nine miles. I think I should get bonus miles for the wind; wunderground claims the wind was 15-30 miles per hour, with gusts up to 40. No wonder I [...]

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Another jump-start

2005-04-02 – 12:33

Yesterday I had to go jump-start Andrea’s car again, this time in the pouring rain. Why is it the car won’t start only on cold or wet days? This time, I listened to some advice from co-workers, who suggested the battery is probably on the way out. I took it by Auto Zone this morning. [...]

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iPod Shuffle Gush

2005-04-01 – 18:01

On a business trip a few months ago, the original headphones from my first-generation iPod, purchased in January 2002, finally gave up. They hadn’t been treated too well, spending much of their time tightly bundled up in a small cloth bag, only to be taken out periodically and untangled, to flop around the desk, airport, [...]

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April deluge

2005-04-01 – 16:55

Hopefully we got most of the rain out of the way in March, because there’s a lot of cycling to be done! Besides the obvious spectator participation in the Tour de Georgia, I want to finally have a good season on the road this year. I haven’t had a really good one since Andrea and [...]

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