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Back to work tonight. Meh...
League restarts in 2 weeks. Went to watch Rec lose to Barnsley Academy side last night. Filey for a week tomoz.
Call from the darts team - meeting tonight, league starting soon.
All but given up on a 200km ride this week. It's just too hot for an 11 hour ride !
Still red hot. Hangover not helping.
Hot hot hot ! Athersley Rec this aft mebby ?
Last shift before mi hols.
Picked up a Carradice Bar Bag for £22 on ebay !!!
55km hilly today - feel good. Planning my 200 for this Sunday.
Thought England did well. Pens are always a bad way to end a game.
Italy 5/2 - bargain !
Filey weekend, back for footy Sunday.
Mint 20.2 Uma upgrade today.
Did not expect England to reach finals. Should be a good match Sunday.
Looks like Cavendish may take the TDF stage wins record from Mercx this year.
Rain forced a 56km ride to Holmfirth rather than further. Feels like I did much more.
Day off tomoz - weather looks poor tho. Looking for a gap to do a 200km this month, maybe ?
Pinephone retired as dd. Switched to an old moto e with lineage os.
Came home from work after 1 hour, felt like shit.
2nd vaccine today. Even money I feel bad tonight.
Up early for smart meters installing.
Wow, some pain going on from yesterday. Makes you wonder how the pro riders just carry on.
102km today, hit a wall at 80km. Hand is not in good shape. Looks like I'm resting up for a bit.
Got a beard going on from last week, should I shave it off ?
Back from very cold trip to the Peak District. Bike was great but the weather was not.
All ready for tomoz. see you next week !
Busy packing for Weds. Quick weigh in and the bike is 25kg with all the gear. Should make for interesting climbing.
Happy Hangover's Day !!! Session in the village yesterday has left me a little fragile.
Touring the Peak District next Weds-Sun on the Elan. Weather looks good.
Revell is now single speed. Rather than throw more money at it I decided to remove the shifters/derailleurs and use it as a runabout.
Stripped the threads of the mech hanger on the Revell. This bike is turning into a nightmare.
It's my night off but I'm really not feeling it - might be a couch day.
Ordered a bike repair stand so I can get stuck in to the Revell.
Great night out. Hangover.
Off up to Filey. Weather looks good for tomoz, when we come home !
Fixed it with an old MTB inner tube !!
Exhaust hanger rubber gone from my car.
Planning a 200 for next week. That would give me my third R500 and open the door for an R1000 - which I have never achieved.
152km trip to York today - hot on the road !
Went for a spin on the Revell and broke it ! Bent the mech hanger, I think the chain is too short.
Back to work tomoz. Meh.
Tried to update to the new version of Agate and it broke. Back to the old version then !
My son is unwell - no ride today. Lots more good weather to come though !!
Swapped tyres on the Spa for 28mm Guttersnipes, should roll better tomorrow - 150km.
102km 1700m climb - easier than Monday. The bike is very sluggish uphill. Will try a flat ride next.
Final dentists visit this morning - feels like I've been punched in the jaw. Can't decide on tomorrows ride. 50 or 100 ?
105km and over 2000m climbing - a very tough day. An hour slower than the same route last September when I used the Pro Carbon. Need to think about lightening the load.
Back early from Filey - wife not well and bloody freezing in the east wind.
Off to Filey for the weekend. Weather looks reasonable, bet it's packed.
Looks like we finally have some weather. Off work from Friday - let the km's roll.....
Alan Partridge tour next spring. Aha!!!
Both wheels trued for £20. Back on the Elan today ! Replaced the rack/rack bag - gonna leave it like this now and carry more weight/gear for peace of mind on long trips.
Barnsley missed out on the playoff final - time to watch to team get sold off. Small consolation that I did not buy an ST however.
Replaced the broken spoke on the Elan but the wheel is out. Taking it to a mechanic this aft to true.
26mm post too small ! Shimmed it with a stella can.
Looking for a camping lamp for next month's tour of the Peak District. Pine64 have announced a partnership with FemtoStar an open source satellite communication service. They currently have no satellites however.
26mm seatpost coming from Spa Cycles along with a leather saddle and bar tape. Index knuckle very painful today.
Just finished a 100 on the Pro Carbon. Got wet through, then had a flat, then hit an invisible speed hump and really hurt my hand. All that with 50 still to go !. Going to have a good drink to numb the pain. 1 more 100 for my Brevet 2000 !!!
Checking the Elan over today - broken spoke ! Glad I found it before I set off anywhere. 26.8mm post arrived for the Revell and it's too big - totally confused over the size now. Looks like I'm out on the Pro Carbon for a while.....
No audax - hail showers put me off. 38km local instead. Pine64 LoRa nodes to be available in June, devs only.
Forecast showers for tomorrow - do I or don't I ??
Weekend off approaches - 2 more 100's get my Brevet 2000 ward. Wash out tomorrow but maybe another 100 Sunday morning ? #audaxaddict
I'm now certain the Revell frame was built by Mercian. The number stamped on the BB matches their format.
Ordered new seatpost and hood covers for the Revell. Leather saddle and bar tape required.
First 100 of the year done ! Started early at 0825 to beat the rain. Only stopped once for a quick apple bar and finished in 4hrs 17mins. Not bad.
2 fillings this morning, feels like i've been beaten up. New bar tape and saddle on the bike - lots to do still. Looking real good for a 100 on the Elan tomoz.
Got the bike - it's an 84. Well pleased with it. The guy found it in a skip and part restored it over lockdown. Pic in Velo Spielo.
Pine64 announced they deffo want to get a LoRa network going - I'm in. Bike tomoz !!
Just threw a 180 in the garage !!!
Really looking forward to riding my first 100km of the year, hopefully a decent bit of weather next Tuesday will provide the opportunity.
Picking up the bike on Sunday - looks like a Revell Ritmo 1983ish. Will do a write up in my Velo section when I've fettled it.
Got my eye on a 1980s reynolds 531 bike, stay tuned....
May Day washout. Can't see many people turning out for a drink is this weather. Watched the Pet Sematary remake last night - meh.
Ended up doing 68km. GPS did not start and had to repeat the first part of the course. Plenty climbing = knackered.
Didn't buy the season ticket. Got a good route planned for a 50km 1AAA ride in the morning, going out to Holmfirth. Might hit the boozer this aft.
MEGA.NZ is down this morning.
My employer says if I don't take a pay cut my future with the company cannot be assured. However if I do take a pay cut my future with the company will.....still not be assured. I'll have to think about that one. (fu*k off)
Barnsley FC season ticket £285 until Friday, then its £350. Yes/No/Wait and see ??
Human Rights Watch issues statement on Israel - I concur.
25km with a 3km off road, bone rattling, section this morning. Why do people sit in their cars with the engine running ????
Barnsley make the playoffs !
My garden is Plant of the Day on Garden Gnome Society, good to know that all that hard work is paying off !
Happy St George's Day !!! 25km ride this morning. A quick audit and reshuffle of my cloud storage, using Mega for big stuff and Disroot for contacts/calendar. Keep thinking about self hosting Nextcloud but do I need to ?
New tooth feels ok. Just had a quick half hour blast on bike, really need to start pushing on to 100km+.
Only had 2 beers in the last week and I've not really missed the rest. Up late last night tweaking the Galisteo image, may replace the PS1 games with a lesser number of full versions as I miss the music/cut scenes.
Dentist can save my broken tooth - hurrah !! 40km on bike to celebrate.
Had the AZ vaccine yesterday afternoon and felt like utter shit since. Just starting to pull round now - the vaccine was much worse than the actual virus for me ! Still, must all do our part.
Image up and running on my Pi3B+ and its great, the music and cutscenes have been stripped from PS1 to save space. I've been reading up on LoRa as Pine64 intend to use the tech in their products, including a Pinephone addon. This is very exciting and may scratch my secure messaging itch.
The 128GB Galisteo image has finally downloaded, with corrupt sections ! Now checking local data. Yawn.
Weekend off after tonight, not had a drink since Tuesday - can I keep it up ? Also trying to cut down on vaping.
I'm gonna take a rest from the booze, still feel below par. Dentist wants £400 for 4 fillings and a clean. I need a restorative specialist for the broken tooth. It may have to come out. Great.
Went out for a quick beer yesterday - woke up feeling like shit today. Looks like I had about 10 pints, can't remember a thing. Idiot.
Pubs are open !!!! Rode past my village local with punters in the beer garden at 1230. Will sample a light beverage tomorrow afternoon.
Really like IRC, I have never used it before despite having HexChat installed on my Mint laptop. Cannot find a decent Pinephone app for it though. Now on Telegram.
Total waste of a day, Snikket via docker would not run so tried Parsody which runs but refuses connections. Problem could be DNS setup, firewall issues or just the fact that I'm using Pi0. IRC maybe, but is there a client for Pinephone ? Also the Axolotl team seem to be making good progress, I do wonder if the Signal devs will just create more obstacles for forks though - they seem to be hellbent on tying us to the official app, I wonder why ?
Self hosted XMPP ? Need a server that will run on my Pi0, will try Snikket first.
Signal messenger is to introduce a crypto payment system using a coin that the CEO has been involved in developing. Starting to look for alternatives.....
Thats it - Easter is all over for me, back to work. Caravan sites open next Monday though, Filey here we come.
Decided to replace the rack and rackpack with my old Carradice zipped roll - bike is 2kg lighter as a result. Bring on the sunshine and 100km brevets !!.....It's been snowing today.
It's my birthday, I am 47. Barnsley need a good win this aft.
So glad jesus forces the easter bunny to shit chocolate eggs for us every year.
50km on the flat today - just over 2 hours on the tourer. Think I'm gonna get the racer out next and see if I can get these times down. Either the tourer is really slowing me down, or I'm just plain shit.
Galisteo has released a 128GB recalbox image for RPi3B+ with over 15,000 games. Currently downloading via transmission but may take a few days. Find it via youtube.
SXMO v1.4.1 update released. This OS is really growing on me, however in order to use as a daily driver the user must customize almost everything via command line. I guess this could be seen as a good or bad thing depending on the user's level of linux skills. I fear it is still beyond my patience limits.
New SXMO out v1.4.0. Tried via sd card and it looks really good, interfaces look more polished and the keyboard is better. Built on top of PMOS stable it runs in less than 200MB ram compared to 700MB in Mobian - wow !!
52km and the first AAA point on the board for 2021. Even got sunburn out there today. Feeling a bit drained, I am deffo out of shape. Battlestar Galactica on Horror channel.
Changing dentist, £80 registration for private. Gold crown quoted at £500 however. Planning my first audax ride of the year tomoz, weather looking exceptional !
Welcome to British Summertime !! Cold and windy outside.
Deleted my Amazon account this morning - take that Jeff !
Quit the Labour party recently as I'm unhappy with their centre-right political stance under Starmer. Joined Left Unity today.
Dentist says I don't need a crown, wish he'd told me that 2 weeks ago. For future reference a gold one would cost £900. Postmarket OS on PP - good but with very little in software repos.
25km in the cold sunshine this morning. Back to work this aft then in the morning its the dreaded dentist ! Put Arch Linux on the PP and liked it, no Axolotl at all though so Mobian it is for now.
Just shy of 40km today, bit windy but great ride nonetheless. Guy on an e-bike beat me up Cat Hill ! Tried Manjaro Plasma and SXMO again but still prefer Mobian. This time next week - Audax.
Feeling better - good cos I start a new shift today. Have to be at work from 1600 from now on. Hopefully this will give me more morning time as I should be sleeping earlier. New kernel would not wake up this morning, may have to revert to 5.10 if this behaviour continues.
No ride today - feel like sh*t. Updated mobian kernel to 5.11, hoping for more power savings.
Nice 25k on the bike this morning. Got an iplayer pass for the Barnsley match at 3. Just off to get some beers. U REDZ !
Was having issues serving mp3 using ah-gemini so have migrated to the agate server. Pinephone is running really well, battery drain has been somewhat tamed. Only issue reamining is the lack of group messaging in axolotl. Hoping this gets fixed soon.
It lost.
Backed Kingswell Theatre E/W in 1540@ Cheltenham - best race of the festival for me, always like to see the cross country chase.
What a day ! Blue sky and sunshine for a 52km bike ride on the Elan. Bit of wind but that did not spoil it. Over 1000m climb has left me in a somewhat exhausted state, no work tonight though so the settee awaits !
Looking at the weather for tomoz, should get a ride in the afternoon. It's my night off so don't mind getting knackered.
Spent 2 hours trying to configure YahooMail with Outlook for mi Dad. No luck, garbage.
Tried Manjaro Plasma on the PP. Looks good but dropped a call staright away, this will be the official OS with future PP's - I think it's a way off yet. Mobian still my daily driver. Thinking of having a gold tooth.
Tested SXMO on pinephone - I like it but it looks like it will take some configuring. Maybe when I get more time I will investigate further. Looking forward to Audax restarting end of month.
Filling £65, now dropped out, so need a crown - £283. Next available appointment in 2 weeks. On a brighter note the pinephone continues to impress. Battery drain is an issue and Axolotl (signal) does not work with groups. However overall its by far the best phone I've ever had.
Dentist at 1220 - cancellation. Get the wallet out !
Got out the Spa Elan today, testing a new Carradice rack bag. Really impressed with it. It replaces the Barley.
Ordered a new 0W from Pimeroni, this should sort my large file transfer issues. Dentist can't see me until next Monday, soft foods all week then. At least I should lose some weight.
Problems with the ethernet adaptor. Whenever I try to send a large file to the pi the router locks up. I'm going to buy a new 0W and be done with it. Really hoping I can see my dentist in the morning.
Intended a 50km bike ride today, broke a tooth at work last night so instead spent the day trying to fix a temporary filling. With no success.
Gemcap offline all week due to bust Pi0W. Had to source a RJ45 adaptor and use an old Pi0. Pinephone has arrived and is fantastic running Mobian. Very pleased.
Upgraded to v0.0.49. Android clients now working !! Thankyou Adrian Hesketh.
I've started a new section comprising of compressed photography.
DHL have my pinephone. Should deliver next Tuesday.
Missing my morning edition of SMOG today.
Drunk too much last night. New sim card arrived for pinephone. No pinephone though.
Picking up a growler of beer for the match tonight. Got town to win @10s !
Ditched Lagrange for Kristall as I prefer the minimilistic look. Can't get my Gemcap on Ariane or Deedum. 1 month to Pinephone so it won't matter anyway.
After many hours of struggle, the server is up and running and appears stable. The breakthrough was made at 0315 when I realised that my amateurish commandline skills(!) were at fault. I am now able to concentrate on content rather than technical issues.