Ok, I know that I said that I wasn't going to do any bragging because that always screws it up but I just can't help it.
Ok, here is how it has been going down. Last year in October I started riding my bike with the intention of eventually getting to the bike trail. I was doing 1 mile a day and gradually I went to 3 miles then 5 an so on until eventually I was doing 10 miles a day on average. Then I had my accident. Ok so I started out at 244 and then I went down to 227. That's 17lbs. Pretty good right? Well then because of the accident I stopped riding until April.
From November 20th the date of the accident until April 14th when I finally started riding again I had gained 10lbs. So I was now 237. So I start riding again and now it's June 12th, today was weigh in day and I weighed in at 221lbs. Well, if you count starting in October at 244lbs then my weight loss is 23lbs total.
Or, you could think of it this way, I gained 10lbs and I lost it again so technically I lost more than 23lbs lol. Ok yeah I didn't think that would fly. Or you might think well technically since April at 237 and now I'm 221 I've only lost 16lbs. Well, whatever, I could from 244 to 221.
But, that was my weight this morning. You are supposed to weigh yourself in the morning after you do your "duty" in the bathroom lol. Who made up that rule? Ok so that was 221 BUT... before dinner I weighed myself again and I was 220 WOOHOO lol.
My point is, I made it out of the 240's, I made it out of the 230's and now, I'm almost out of the 220's and that is all that matters. I cannot wait to get into the 210's so that I can get into the 200's and so on.
Ok, enough bragging for one day. If I keep bragging then I will jinx myself and I don't want to risk that lol.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Free Bike Tripod
It seems that our tool shed attached to the back of the garage seems to be more useful than I ever thought. Before Stargate SG-1 came on today I went out there hoping to be able to make a homemade tripod for the bicycle handlebars and I wasn't quite able to make something that was acceptable. There was a 50/50 chance that it could still fall off and break lol.
So I came in the house and watched SG-1 and while I was watching it I started thinking more about it. I wondered if maybe there was a screw that would fit in the camera on the bottom. So I patiently waited for it to end then ran out there lol.
I was right, there was one that was the perfect size and it was long enough, although it could've been longer but it ended up being the right fit.
I was going to use the technique that I found here and I tried, I had an old dollar light that the light had broken years ago and I kept the mount for it for this very purpose. I got the nut out, drilled the hole in it no problem. But, when I put the screw in and then tried to tighten it the plastic broke so that was no good.
So then I went back into the tool shed and I started thinking what to do next. I have a new dollar light so I thought well, I guess I'm just going to have to use that and just buy another one. However, as I was trying to take out the nut I glanced over at the cabinet in the indoor patio which has tools in it and saw the garden hose repair stuff. A light bulb turned on above my head. I looked at the light mount and told it that it was it's lucky day and that it has gotten a reprieve, for now.
So I grabbed the green garden hose piece that has 2 screws, 1 on each side and it mounts on the outside of the hose then I took it out to the table in the back where my drill was already set up with the right size drill bit and I held the hose piece inside my finger while I drilled into 1 of the screw holes. Perfect.
I put a little piece of rubber inside the top part of it then put it onto the handlebar and screwed in 1 side with the screw it came with then I put in my long screw that fits perfectly into the camera and I put a nut on and tightened it at the perfect angle. Then I put another nut on the screw so when I put the camera onto the screw then I just tighten the 2nd nut to keep the camera in place.
Here is a picture:
So tomorrow when I go out on my bike ride I will have the camera inside the camera bag right inside the Townie Basket and then as soon as I get to the bike trail I will mount the camera and then start filming from there. It's much safer to ride with the camera attached while on the bike trail. I'm just too paranoid that I'm going to have an accident on the streets then have the camcorder fall and break into 10 million pieces. Besides, I'd rather just focus the video on the bike trail and not the streets.
So I came in the house and watched SG-1 and while I was watching it I started thinking more about it. I wondered if maybe there was a screw that would fit in the camera on the bottom. So I patiently waited for it to end then ran out there lol.
I was right, there was one that was the perfect size and it was long enough, although it could've been longer but it ended up being the right fit.
I was going to use the technique that I found here and I tried, I had an old dollar light that the light had broken years ago and I kept the mount for it for this very purpose. I got the nut out, drilled the hole in it no problem. But, when I put the screw in and then tried to tighten it the plastic broke so that was no good.
So then I went back into the tool shed and I started thinking what to do next. I have a new dollar light so I thought well, I guess I'm just going to have to use that and just buy another one. However, as I was trying to take out the nut I glanced over at the cabinet in the indoor patio which has tools in it and saw the garden hose repair stuff. A light bulb turned on above my head. I looked at the light mount and told it that it was it's lucky day and that it has gotten a reprieve, for now.
So I grabbed the green garden hose piece that has 2 screws, 1 on each side and it mounts on the outside of the hose then I took it out to the table in the back where my drill was already set up with the right size drill bit and I held the hose piece inside my finger while I drilled into 1 of the screw holes. Perfect.
I put a little piece of rubber inside the top part of it then put it onto the handlebar and screwed in 1 side with the screw it came with then I put in my long screw that fits perfectly into the camera and I put a nut on and tightened it at the perfect angle. Then I put another nut on the screw so when I put the camera onto the screw then I just tighten the 2nd nut to keep the camera in place.
Here is a picture:
So tomorrow when I go out on my bike ride I will have the camera inside the camera bag right inside the Townie Basket and then as soon as I get to the bike trail I will mount the camera and then start filming from there. It's much safer to ride with the camera attached while on the bike trail. I'm just too paranoid that I'm going to have an accident on the streets then have the camcorder fall and break into 10 million pieces. Besides, I'd rather just focus the video on the bike trail and not the streets.
WordPress 2.8 Upgrade Issues
Just giving a heads up that yesterday I tried to upgrade my WordPress to version 2.8 and it gave me nothing but problems. Before I did the upgrade I backed my entire blog folder onto the computer just in case and it was a good thing that I did because I ended up having to delete the blog folder completely and replace it.
It's not back to the way it was though, I'm having issues with uploading photos and when the blog loads in internet exploder there are errors on the page.
I am going to wait a week to see if WordPress decides to fix the issue and give us a new file to download. I say "us" because apparently I'm not the only person having issues with it.
It's not back to the way it was though, I'm having issues with uploading photos and when the blog loads in internet exploder there are errors on the page.
I am going to wait a week to see if WordPress decides to fix the issue and give us a new file to download. I say "us" because apparently I'm not the only person having issues with it.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Downtime
Sorry about that. Today I went to blog something and noticed at the top of my WordPress dashboard there was a notice saying there was a new version available and I tried to have it update itself but it wouldn't, it said that the file was too big even though it was only a couple of megabytes.
I did a backup of my blog then started doing the manual upgrade and it didn't work too good so I had to delete everything and try to put the backup back in. Unfortunately, I kept getting errors so it wouldn't allow me to return my backups.
I've been working all day trying to get it all back in. Hopefully it will all be back soon. Thank you for your patience.
I did a backup of my blog then started doing the manual upgrade and it didn't work too good so I had to delete everything and try to put the backup back in. Unfortunately, I kept getting errors so it wouldn't allow me to return my backups.
I've been working all day trying to get it all back in. Hopefully it will all be back soon. Thank you for your patience.
More Kodak Printer Problems
Chip bought me my Kodak EasyShare 5300 printer for Christmas in 2007. In July 2008 I started having issues with it. Here is my post in August for that:
Kodak All-In-One Printer | Mike's Blog
It's happening again. 11 months after my issue originally started which was 6 1/2 months after getting it. It's not printing certain colors at all, it's printing white lines in the pictures but here is a new issue, the black ink looks smudged like someone ran their hand across the paper after I printed something out.
I emailed Kodak support again to find out if they will help me the same way they did last year which was by sending me a new print head with new black and color ink cartridges. I'm hoping they will honor their product by sending this to me again. If not then I will just get another printer (when I can lol).
I have never had this issue with any other printer that I've had in my life. My first printer was, well that was a dot matrix printer in 1989 lol. I had nothing but problems with the paper slipping, it was back when the paper was all attached and it had those holes on both sides. Anyway, my next printer which was in 1997 was an Epson printer, never had an issue with it. That is until I spilled my beer on my desk and it got into the printer. Then I bought an HP and I never had problems with it. Then my next one after that was a Dell all-in-one printer. The only issue I had with that was that they didn't sell their ink at the store, only online. Then Chip bought me this and this is the 2nd time I've had the same issue.
I would still recomend the Kodak EasyShare all-in-one printers because I really like how it has the SD card slot on the front so I don't have to upload my pictures from my camera to the computer just to be able to print a picture to a 4x6 glossy sheet of photo paper. And I like how their software has the Kodak auto fix or whatever it's called.
I also love that their ink is cheaper than other brands. The black is $10 and the color is $15. The ink package I just bought from Walmart was $27 with taxes and it had 1 black and 1 color cartridge in the box. Very inexpensive. My Dell ink was $21 for the black and $25 or something for the color so I was spending almost $50 on ink.
I'm waiting for their response so hopefully it will be positive and not them saying well since this is your 2nd issue you have to buy a new print head but instead ok, we will send it right out to you. I will edit this post when I get the email.
Edit: I got the email from them saying they are going to send me a new print head. YAY!
Kodak All-In-One Printer | Mike's Blog
It's happening again. 11 months after my issue originally started which was 6 1/2 months after getting it. It's not printing certain colors at all, it's printing white lines in the pictures but here is a new issue, the black ink looks smudged like someone ran their hand across the paper after I printed something out.
I emailed Kodak support again to find out if they will help me the same way they did last year which was by sending me a new print head with new black and color ink cartridges. I'm hoping they will honor their product by sending this to me again. If not then I will just get another printer (when I can lol).
I have never had this issue with any other printer that I've had in my life. My first printer was, well that was a dot matrix printer in 1989 lol. I had nothing but problems with the paper slipping, it was back when the paper was all attached and it had those holes on both sides. Anyway, my next printer which was in 1997 was an Epson printer, never had an issue with it. That is until I spilled my beer on my desk and it got into the printer. Then I bought an HP and I never had problems with it. Then my next one after that was a Dell all-in-one printer. The only issue I had with that was that they didn't sell their ink at the store, only online. Then Chip bought me this and this is the 2nd time I've had the same issue.
I would still recomend the Kodak EasyShare all-in-one printers because I really like how it has the SD card slot on the front so I don't have to upload my pictures from my camera to the computer just to be able to print a picture to a 4x6 glossy sheet of photo paper. And I like how their software has the Kodak auto fix or whatever it's called.
I also love that their ink is cheaper than other brands. The black is $10 and the color is $15. The ink package I just bought from Walmart was $27 with taxes and it had 1 black and 1 color cartridge in the box. Very inexpensive. My Dell ink was $21 for the black and $25 or something for the color so I was spending almost $50 on ink.
I'm waiting for their response so hopefully it will be positive and not them saying well since this is your 2nd issue you have to buy a new print head but instead ok, we will send it right out to you. I will edit this post when I get the email.
Edit: I got the email from them saying they are going to send me a new print head. YAY!
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
No More Corresponding
Remember the day when you would sit at a desk and write a letter to someone with an actual pen and paper? Sometimes you mess up so you have to crumble up the paper and throw it away and the trash can would be halfway full of crumbled up paper. You wanted to get it right because there was no delete button and there was no spell check. Then once you were finished you folded it up and stuffed it into an envelope and wrote your address and their address and put a 10¢ stamp on it then put it in your mailbox to go out the next day. Remember that?
Well, then the internet came along and that made it so much easier to sit at your home computer (mac or pc) and you could email your letter instead. You sat there thinking what you wanted to say so you didn't sound too weird or something. Now of course you could delete and spell check then the person gets it in the blink of an eye.
What happened to that? It seems that I don't get any emails from family or friends anymore except for the ones that are forwarded to me from other people which have either jokes, funny pictures of dogs or cats or some old lady comic strip. Most of the emails people forward to me are all telling me about some kid who has cancer and you have to forward it to 10 people. Or about being careful not to get out of the car with the keys in the ignition because you see a note in the back of the car.
For once I'd like to get an email from someone telling me how their day or week was. An email saying hi how are you. I email people constantly and sometimes they actually respond but then that's it. If I don't start a conversation then the conversation never gets had.
What is the point of having email if nobody will actually email you something that they wrote instead of just using other crap people have sent them.
I think that's one of the reasons why I blog so much because I've gotten to the point where nobody emails me so why should I email them. So if I have something that I want to get out, I'm just gonna blog it and if someone cares enough to read it then they can respond either in email or they can leave a comment.
I know someone out there knows what I'm talking about.
Well, then the internet came along and that made it so much easier to sit at your home computer (mac or pc) and you could email your letter instead. You sat there thinking what you wanted to say so you didn't sound too weird or something. Now of course you could delete and spell check then the person gets it in the blink of an eye.
What happened to that? It seems that I don't get any emails from family or friends anymore except for the ones that are forwarded to me from other people which have either jokes, funny pictures of dogs or cats or some old lady comic strip. Most of the emails people forward to me are all telling me about some kid who has cancer and you have to forward it to 10 people. Or about being careful not to get out of the car with the keys in the ignition because you see a note in the back of the car.
For once I'd like to get an email from someone telling me how their day or week was. An email saying hi how are you. I email people constantly and sometimes they actually respond but then that's it. If I don't start a conversation then the conversation never gets had.
What is the point of having email if nobody will actually email you something that they wrote instead of just using other crap people have sent them.
I think that's one of the reasons why I blog so much because I've gotten to the point where nobody emails me so why should I email them. So if I have something that I want to get out, I'm just gonna blog it and if someone cares enough to read it then they can respond either in email or they can leave a comment.
I know someone out there knows what I'm talking about.
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