The September Blog Project - #27
The best laid plans of mice & men, couldn't put Humpty together again. That's how it goes, right?
Ok start the day with a rewind. On the way home last night, I realized that both headlights were out in the truck. Since D was going on a business trip today - with the truck - that made things a little...let's say not great. So, I'm at the garage at 7am asking if they can fit me in. Well, being a regular, they take the key and get to work and by 8:30 I'm back home with 2 new headlights & an oil change, making breakfast. Pretty happy with how well that ended up. So ok, D has a car. Good.
Finished up putting together the Round Valley Jorba Chapter Crew whatever-it's-called. Really just a mailing list of people who ride, might want to work, but really want to share information about the park. DM me if you want to be on (I won't share your email with anynoe). I even made a PPT for this to help me track shit. So exciting it hurts.
Work.
Today I'm a solo dad with 2 stepsons (Julia at her mom's). I get Simon from soccer, drop him off at the fields, go get Zac, go home, make dumpling fried rice, go get Simon, then back home. Then there's a financial aid seminar at 7pm. I can do half of that. Unfortunately the first half of the half I can make is the presenter trying to share her PPT. Eventually she gets going and it was like watching paste run slowly downhill.
I cannot do the whole school webinar because I have a Jorba website redesign call tonight. So yeah we're redesigning the site. Sort of a start of the process there.
Finally I get on the trainer, well after dark. I started climbing the Alpe and halfway up the trainer lost connection yet again, and this time just refused to reconnect. This is pretty much the last straw with this piece of hot fucking garbage. Time for a new setup. It's been a long time, but what is the most bulletproof setup these days? I know a lot of people use Apple TV, but is that the most reliable? If I could, I would physically wire the whole thing but I know that's not possible. I'm pretty much at a 50% fail rate with the Zwift rides these days, at least at some point in the ride it drops. Most of the time it comes back but not today.
Maybe I should just use my phone for a bit.
Yeah so Wednesday took the role of Tuesday in the worst day of the week award. Fuck it, one of the days has to lose. Today was it. I also forgot to take a picture today so you get a Facebook memory. For those of you who remember Sketchy Cross Guy, 13 years ago I beat him at Whirlybird for the win:
The best laid plans of mice & men, couldn't put Humpty together again. That's how it goes, right?
Ok start the day with a rewind. On the way home last night, I realized that both headlights were out in the truck. Since D was going on a business trip today - with the truck - that made things a little...let's say not great. So, I'm at the garage at 7am asking if they can fit me in. Well, being a regular, they take the key and get to work and by 8:30 I'm back home with 2 new headlights & an oil change, making breakfast. Pretty happy with how well that ended up. So ok, D has a car. Good.
Finished up putting together the Round Valley Jorba Chapter Crew whatever-it's-called. Really just a mailing list of people who ride, might want to work, but really want to share information about the park. DM me if you want to be on (I won't share your email with anynoe). I even made a PPT for this to help me track shit. So exciting it hurts.
Work.
Today I'm a solo dad with 2 stepsons (Julia at her mom's). I get Simon from soccer, drop him off at the fields, go get Zac, go home, make dumpling fried rice, go get Simon, then back home. Then there's a financial aid seminar at 7pm. I can do half of that. Unfortunately the first half of the half I can make is the presenter trying to share her PPT. Eventually she gets going and it was like watching paste run slowly downhill.
I cannot do the whole school webinar because I have a Jorba website redesign call tonight. So yeah we're redesigning the site. Sort of a start of the process there.
Finally I get on the trainer, well after dark. I started climbing the Alpe and halfway up the trainer lost connection yet again, and this time just refused to reconnect. This is pretty much the last straw with this piece of hot fucking garbage. Time for a new setup. It's been a long time, but what is the most bulletproof setup these days? I know a lot of people use Apple TV, but is that the most reliable? If I could, I would physically wire the whole thing but I know that's not possible. I'm pretty much at a 50% fail rate with the Zwift rides these days, at least at some point in the ride it drops. Most of the time it comes back but not today.
Maybe I should just use my phone for a bit.
Yeah so Wednesday took the role of Tuesday in the worst day of the week award. Fuck it, one of the days has to lose. Today was it. I also forgot to take a picture today so you get a Facebook memory. For those of you who remember Sketchy Cross Guy, 13 years ago I beat him at Whirlybird for the win:
