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John's Rant
March 11, 2011 - I keep a spreadsheet for my mileage. I have now 845 miles for the year. it also calculated the miles for the last 28 days and it shows my weekly mileage at 133 miles a week. I am hoping it gets warmer so I can get more than 30-40 miles each ride..
Feb 16, 2011 - Now that I can sleep late, I can't sleep late. I find myself waking up araourd 6:30 in the morning. Yesterday I set the clock for 6:15 to go riding and I was out of bed at 6:00 a.m. Maybe I will get a few more miles in this year.
Feb. 9, 2011 - Now with more time on my hands I have spent a lot of it on the web page. - About a year ago I saw this neat menu system that put a menu on the bottom os the screen and thought it would look neat on my page. so I ordered the template and of course it didn't work the way I wanted. It was all in CSS which I didn't know very well. After hours of studying and experimentation I finally got a working menu. It looks nothing like the template but it works.
Feb. 4, 2011 - I had such good luck with GIMP (see below) that I noticed a free vector drawing program called Inkscape. I already have a legal copy of Corel Draw and have used this program since it was Designer by Micrographics, written right here in Richardson. I downloaded Inkscape and to my surprise it is a complete program, much easier to use than Corel Draw.
2011-01-25 - Someone asked me what I did today. here is my answer
I got out of bed at 7:30 a.m. Spent the morning on my web page, still beating my head against the wall. I did get a little done. Washed dishes, cooked some chicken for the next few days supper. At 2:00 went to dentist and he removed my fake tooth so the next dentist could drill a hole in my jaw. after he drilled a small hole he used a hammer and a sort of chisel to widen the hole to put the screw in. Much fun, but no pain. that came later. At 4:15 visited the first dentist so he could put the fake tooth back in. Dropped off the prescriptions, went home to feed dogs. Picked up prescriptions and at 6:00 p.m. attended Homeowners Association meeting until 9:15 when I jumped up and left. Told them the pain pill had wore off. there - - you asked.
2011-01-22 - I had been using Photoshop but it was an older version and, one day, it just up and quit. Well . . A new program is about $500.00. At work somebody was using a FREE program called GIMP I downloaded it and WOW it was so easy to use and it did everything I needed to do. Goodbye photoshop.
2011-01-19 - I have had it pretty good lately. working three days a week gave me two days to ride and enough money to pay for it. I rode over 6,000 miles in 2010. Now the good news, Monday Jan 31, 2010 will be my last day at work.and I will have five days a week to ride. The bad news: Can I afford it on social security? I feel a little guilty about buying some expensive wheels, but it is too late now.
