TOO DARN MANY PEOPLE!
2.4 Mile Walk at Philbrick Park
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
SETTING UP A NEW COMPUTER -
Let the "Fun" Begin...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
I would say that I hate buying new computers as much as I hate buying new cars, but my old Subaru lasted 13 years before I gave up and replaced it, and it's only been 10 years for my Dell PC... of course during that 10 years I've installed and upgraded multiple hard drives, every bit of RAM the thing would take, and oodles of other odds-and-ends. In fact, if Dell wasn't so fixated on proprietary hardware I would probably have upgraded just about everything inside the case by now instead of spending increasing amounts of time swearing at it as it seemingly gets slower and slower... Instead, when I recently found myself with a bit of inherited money, I shelled out for a shiny new HP PC which has been sitting in its box in my living room for the last week, waiting for me to have the time and space to get it set up.
And really, that's the part of the new computer I hate - setting the blasted thing up so that it will do all the stuff my old one does, but faster and hopefully better.
Didn't do much with it tonight, but I've already run into two programs that I use a lot that don't get along with Windows 7. Checked into upgrading them, don't like the reasonably-priced options (or the expensive options, for that matter!) I also found out that this version of Win 7 only supports 16 GB of RAM, meaning one of the DIMMs I dropped in as an upgrade is currently doing zip. But researching that convinced me to shell out some additional money for an upgrade to the next level of Win 7, which not only supports a lot more RAM but also has the option of a Windows XP "virtual machine" which might allow me to run programs I use that don't play nicey nice with Win 7. (Apparently, the next level of Win 7 is already on my new computer - what I paid for tonight is a box containing an access code to turn it on. A fairly clever bit of cost-saving work on the part of Microsoft...)
Sadly, I still have a lot of work to do before the new PC can take the place of the Dell dinosaur in my office (which may find itself retiring to run a bunch of the old games I have - not that I ever really play the things any more - and the wireless router) - there's still a lot of software to load, a TB or so worth of files to transfer (guess I better get the 2nd hard drive up and running in the new PC) and the office itself needs to be cleaned up and reorganized. Gah!
JMH
Let the "Fun" Begin...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
I would say that I hate buying new computers as much as I hate buying new cars, but my old Subaru lasted 13 years before I gave up and replaced it, and it's only been 10 years for my Dell PC... of course during that 10 years I've installed and upgraded multiple hard drives, every bit of RAM the thing would take, and oodles of other odds-and-ends. In fact, if Dell wasn't so fixated on proprietary hardware I would probably have upgraded just about everything inside the case by now instead of spending increasing amounts of time swearing at it as it seemingly gets slower and slower... Instead, when I recently found myself with a bit of inherited money, I shelled out for a shiny new HP PC which has been sitting in its box in my living room for the last week, waiting for me to have the time and space to get it set up.
And really, that's the part of the new computer I hate - setting the blasted thing up so that it will do all the stuff my old one does, but faster and hopefully better.
Didn't do much with it tonight, but I've already run into two programs that I use a lot that don't get along with Windows 7. Checked into upgrading them, don't like the reasonably-priced options (or the expensive options, for that matter!) I also found out that this version of Win 7 only supports 16 GB of RAM, meaning one of the DIMMs I dropped in as an upgrade is currently doing zip. But researching that convinced me to shell out some additional money for an upgrade to the next level of Win 7, which not only supports a lot more RAM but also has the option of a Windows XP "virtual machine" which might allow me to run programs I use that don't play nicey nice with Win 7. (Apparently, the next level of Win 7 is already on my new computer - what I paid for tonight is a box containing an access code to turn it on. A fairly clever bit of cost-saving work on the part of Microsoft...)
Sadly, I still have a lot of work to do before the new PC can take the place of the Dell dinosaur in my office (which may find itself retiring to run a bunch of the old games I have - not that I ever really play the things any more - and the wireless router) - there's still a lot of software to load, a TB or so worth of files to transfer (guess I better get the 2nd hard drive up and running in the new PC) and the office itself needs to be cleaned up and reorganized. Gah!
JMH
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Lazy Turtle
Sunday, June 17, 2012
So much for this weekend's races... Friday I decided I was too tired to spend 10+ hours driving between Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, so I cancelled my room and skipped the Parvin State Park Duathlon in NJ yesterday. I'll have to get a NJ race in later this year. I was still planning to do the Greylock Half Marathon today - right up to the point where my alarm went off, I fell back asleep, and woke up too late to have any real chance of getting there on time. Bloody shame, too - conditions today were about as good as they get for a mid-June race.
JMH
Sunday, June 17, 2012
So much for this weekend's races... Friday I decided I was too tired to spend 10+ hours driving between Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, so I cancelled my room and skipped the Parvin State Park Duathlon in NJ yesterday. I'll have to get a NJ race in later this year. I was still planning to do the Greylock Half Marathon today - right up to the point where my alarm went off, I fell back asleep, and woke up too late to have any real chance of getting there on time. Bloody shame, too - conditions today were about as good as they get for a mid-June race.
JMH
Saturday, June 16, 2012
0.8 Mile Walk at Buckingham Lake
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Lots of ducks at Buckingham Lake (maybe it should be called Duck-ingham Lake?) mostly snoozing on the shore. I saw the female with a pair of youngsters, and another female with four relatively new little fuzzballs.
I suspect the work the city did to install a water fountain also involved disconnecting the three fountains - in past years the fountains would have been running by now. That may explain why the city seems to be adding algicide more often. I saw a couple of turtles today - but no sign of the many turtles I saw about a month ago when I walked there on a sunny afternoon.
I considered doing a 2nd loop around the pond, but I really wanted to get to Harbor Freight so I could get the tools I needed and get to work installing the new CD player in my Civic.
JMH
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Lots of ducks at Buckingham Lake (maybe it should be called Duck-ingham Lake?) mostly snoozing on the shore. I saw the female with a pair of youngsters, and another female with four relatively new little fuzzballs.
I suspect the work the city did to install a water fountain also involved disconnecting the three fountains - in past years the fountains would have been running by now. That may explain why the city seems to be adding algicide more often. I saw a couple of turtles today - but no sign of the many turtles I saw about a month ago when I walked there on a sunny afternoon.
I considered doing a 2nd loop around the pond, but I really wanted to get to Harbor Freight so I could get the tools I needed and get to work installing the new CD player in my Civic.
JMH
Friday, June 15, 2012
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Saturday, June 09, 2012
Friday, June 08, 2012
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Sunday, June 03, 2012
Saturday, June 02, 2012
Friday, June 01, 2012
SIGH... NO RYE-BY-THE-SEA DUATHLON FOR THE TURTLE...
Friday, June 1, 2012
A tough decision, but I think the right one... the forecast for tomorrow morning calls for temperatures in the low 50's and rain, which would make for a miserable, unsafe morning. Factor in the cost of a motel room and the additional driving to get there and the decision became something of a no-brainer.
Sometimes I have to remind myself that I do races for a couple of reasons - (1) to motivate myself to get out and run, ride, etc, (2) to push myself harder than I would on a "training" run or ride, (3) to give myself an excuse to visit cool places, and (4) to have some fun. If the forecast is correct, tomorrow will not be fun... and afterwards I'd end up just driving home, instead of visiting parks and nature preserves in the general vicinity of the race. So after the Twilight Trail Run wraps up tonight, I'll be heading home instead of up into New Hampshire.
I'll just have to get in some running and riding closer to home this weekend...
JMH
Friday, June 1, 2012
A tough decision, but I think the right one... the forecast for tomorrow morning calls for temperatures in the low 50's and rain, which would make for a miserable, unsafe morning. Factor in the cost of a motel room and the additional driving to get there and the decision became something of a no-brainer.
Sometimes I have to remind myself that I do races for a couple of reasons - (1) to motivate myself to get out and run, ride, etc, (2) to push myself harder than I would on a "training" run or ride, (3) to give myself an excuse to visit cool places, and (4) to have some fun. If the forecast is correct, tomorrow will not be fun... and afterwards I'd end up just driving home, instead of visiting parks and nature preserves in the general vicinity of the race. So after the Twilight Trail Run wraps up tonight, I'll be heading home instead of up into New Hampshire.
I'll just have to get in some running and riding closer to home this weekend...
JMH
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