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You hear those immortal words “we have won on the lottery” and all of a suddenly the brain is in over drive trying to catch those Ferrari and Lamborghini racing round your head when suddenly they all collide and I am brought back to reality by the words, “but it is only £6.90″ With all my dreams shattered for another week it is back to my mundane existence.

No cycling this weekend, my back is still painful and I have a couple of rides I want to do at the beginning and end of October so I am staying out of the saddle this weekend in an attempt to let it heal and not aggravate it any further. If it no better in a couple of weeks I will see the doctors, I have a doctors appointment already for blood test results so I will bring it up then.

Not a lot more to say at the moment apart from the fact I hate Windows XP and Wireless networking but that is another story for another day

Part2 21:35 update

Well since Thursday I have been trying to sort out a PC for the daughter, I guess it is about 5 year old, a Dell running Windows XP. We had to install Windows XP 3 times as the first two attempts went awry with a problem with Internet Explorer, I narrowed this down to a problem with the IE8 update, so on the third install we did not install IE8, (daughter will be using either Firefox or Goggle Chrome anyway). Once we had it up and running then we could not get the wireless to work, we had a choice of three working devices, two USB adaptors or a PCI card based wireless card. The two USB would find the network but refused to aquire an IP address. With the PCI card, Windows XP refused to even see the card, after much hair pulling I have just got it working. Not sure what I did to get it to work but at this late stage thankful it is working.

OK so I posted this morning as I could not be bothered last night, so now I have to post a second time today to cover the bits about to day, damm this blogging is hard work …………….

It seems as though everybody is moving to using the WordPress blogging software, you can either go to WordPress.com for WordPress to host the blog for you or WordPress.org for the software to host the blog yourself (you will need a hosting package from an Internet service provider if you want to do it yourself). Three of the sites I follow Massive MTBer, Welsh Cyclist and Lezz (the moon walking bear) (there is probably more) have recently moved over to WordPress (not sure who using hosted or self hosting). I have been using WordPress for around 8 months now and once you have your feet under the table it is so simple to use.

Todays entertainment, well today started early about 6am in fact when I bashed the alarm clock for going off when I am on holiday. When I eventually dragged myself out of bed it was *issing down, option one early morning ride out the window. The daughter was working this evening so we stayed local today and drove to Poole and then walked down to the old town, along the quay and around the shopping centre, funny while we were out it never rained.

I had to go the the local bike shop this afternoon which is over the other side of Bournemouth so once we were all back in the car I headed for the other side of Bournemouth. About half way along to the shop my daughter tells me that she need to catch the early bus to get to work on time and with going to the shop and the wife wanting to do some more shopping for one item (make note) she would miss her bus and be late for work, so I had to turn round and head back towards home, oh hum.

A quick visit to the cycle shop (a long visit can get expensive) and I was on my way out the door but this caught my eye Team Sky Replica road bike, it looks lovely but look at the price !!!

Anyway as I mentioned earlier the wife wanted to go to one shop for one item, why then did we come out with 8 items, if I had gone into the bike shop for one item and come out with 8……….well either I would not have got out the shop door alive or told not to come home!!

When we got home, the daughter was still there, apparently lunch took longer to cook and she will get a later bus!!

As the rain had cleared off I decide to finish the bike clean I gave up on on Sunday due to the rain, got the bike out the shed and it started to rain again, I just can’t win. The bike is now already for the off tomorrow, the GPS has the map and route downloaded ready. I have done part of tomorrows route in the past but that involved driving some 8 miles to a country pub, starting and finishing the ride there. Tomorrow I will be riding from home. A little apprehensive over my back but a little peddle down the road tonight seemed to be OK.

And finally (a curve ball), how many 50 years olds do you know that like Pendulum?? Currently listening to Pendulum Live at the Brixton Academy, already listen to their latest Album (there showing my age, CD), Immersion

Nothing special happened today, the duvet fairy tried to keep me in bed this morning so the customary Throop loop started a bit late this morning. Still managed to get back home in 2hrs and 45 minutes, at least nobody tried to drive me off the road today. Mind you I did nearly crash into a tent!! Going a long the Stour Valley section, rounded a tree and there were three tents in the middle of the path, managed to hit the anchors and divert through the tuffty grass, not quite what you expect to find on the path at 8:15 in the morning.

Back home, gave the bike a hose down and lubricated the chain, I like this summer riding no mud to hose off.

Went out in the garden and chopped down some large brambles and blocked a hole under the neighbours fence which will help deter the cats…………..yeah right!! Fixed a minor problem where I ran out of disk space on my PC and that is about it for my day, not done a lot else. Just wait and see what tomorrow nights throws at me.