Friday, October 16th, 2009
Today is my brother Hal’s birthday. Let’s see…He must be 48 now. Wow, almost middle aged! Happy birthday bro’! And congratulations for making it this far! 
I hope your day is a great day.
The picture here is of Hal from our adventure last summer on the Oklahoma Freewheel. Rumor is that he and Dad are going to ride the OKFree again next year. It was a lot of fun, though challenging at times. I hope they stick with their plan. I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and will probably try to join them for at least part of the ride. Maybe all of it if the timing works.
I’m sure Dad and Hal have been putting miles in to get ready for their ride. For me, I haven’t been on Eddy too much lately. I bought some new pedals and haven’t gotten them adjusted quite right, so I’ve been avoiding him. Time to fix that and start putting some time back in on that Brooks saddle again. OKFree will be much more enjoyable that way, and hey, it’s even kind of fun to ride around here too…
Oh yeah, and Lori is going to be getting serious w/ her new Guru soon, as she cranks up for Ironman Utah. Yeah, better get on Eddy or I’ll be in pain for the next six months just trying to keep up with her! Gotta go… But first, one last “Happy Birthday Hal!”
Eddy! Eddy! Where are you?! We’re going riding…
Friday, October 16th, 2009
My Kindle DX really let me down this evening. Here’s the story:
I have been in Philadelphia this week and am traveling home now (this was posted after arriving home). The weather wasn’t good in Pennsylvania so we were delayed a couple of hours by our late-arriving inbound airplane. Not fun, but understandable. Since I have been on a PHP/Javascript/Wordpress learning adventure for the last few months, I decided to download a new book on my Kindle for the ride home. Something about moving from coding to software development. Yeah, pretty geeky stuff.
Anyway, I bought the book, it downloaded to my Kindle, and I headed onto the airplane. Once in my seat I decided to log onto the internet using the Kindle’s browser. I figured I would do a quick search on google and then settle in for the plane-ride and read home. About 5 minutes into the very slow surf on Google, the kindle reset itself. And deleted all my books. Not good. But I have a few minutes to try to re-download the new book and a couple of others.
Long story short, I could not download any archived books. I could shop on the Amazon store, and even buy a book (now I own a book I don’t need and can’t read), but nothing would download. I am not happy.
All is not lost of course. Now I have the opportunity to complain about Kindle and upload it to my blog. I have a javascript book I can read. I can play around w/ some programming ideas. I have some photos to look at that I need to upload to Flickr. But my Kindle is in the doghouse, and Amazon is in the doghouse.
But wait! I just turned the Kindle on again to look at it’s blank face in dismay. Now everything is back! Great! But, I’m still annoyed at the scare, and now I have a book I don’t need. Oh well, just the cost of a programming/development problem on Amazon’s end I guess. Better start reading the developer book… And Kindle is still in my doghouse for a while. Bye bye!
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