After chopping some firewood and rebuilding my mountain bike rear hub I'm feeling pretty content. It's been a while since I've done any serious work on a bike other than the usual periodic maintenance. With four bikes, when one needs work I usually take it into the shop (Spokes Etc.) and let the professionals handle the task.

To get our last ride of the year in, we visited a friend nearby and froze our hind parts. After a couple of hours of being home, I'm just starting to thaw out.

Back when I loaded Linux from the Mandrake 7 disks I was a little surprised at how much disk space was required for the basic distribution. This guide to a "lo-fat linux desktop" would have come in handy when I contemplated starting over from scratch. As it is, the Linux box just doesn't get much use. I don't have the time to learn how to be a sysadmin for doing basic tasks.


posted by Bruce Wright at 7:53 PM #