The
last two days saw rain and wind, and to be quite honest, I was glad I
didn't ride. That way I could recuperate from the last weeks
mountainbike outings. The extra 2 days of rest made me eager to go out.
On the road with the Hilset. I rode a big loop, working my way down to
Tombeek and further on to Rosieres and then back towards Maleizen. From
there on I looped back towards Tombeek and Terlanen, finishing the lap
towards Sint Joris Weert and the Zoete Waters. The weather was warm,
albeit cloudy, and I felt good. My average speed was the highest I
managed outside this year. Hopefully a sign that the form is there.
On
another note, I got bad news from Frank today. Frank is a friend who
was looking to see what was wrong with my PC. At first he thought the
RAID controller had packed in, and it did, but when he tried installing
XP again, he couldn't get it to work. Further analysing pointed to the
motherboard - the heart of the PC - that was faulty. That means getting
a new motherboard - this one dates from 2005 so the BUS
connectors of the new motherboards are no longer compatible with the PC
housing. In short, its gonna cost me a lot more than anticipated. I can
recuperate my disks - and data, thank God - and some other stuff, but
the PC casing, motherboard, 1.5GB memory, graphic card etc, will all
have to be replaced. I have already ordered a new HP Pavillion
X16-1299EB laptop because I want to divide my work over 2 PC's. The new
laptop will run 64bits Vista and will be used for all things graphical
- my pictures - and applications not needing constant connection with
the internet. The other PC - a desktop like the one that just got fried
- will be used for interfacing with the www. Also stuff like GPS
interfacing and possibly my Polar Precision Performance software will
run on that PC. Since most of my data is on external HD this is
interchangeable so I need not worry about getting stuff from one PC to
the other. And for quick data transfer I have a couple of big USB
sticks.
Ride Stats : 52K and 370/371 heightmeters (Polar/Garmin) in 2h07mins
3393/31860
13-05-2009, 21:43 geschreven door Big Bad Wolf
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