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Feb. 4th, 2019 08:40 amI changed some passwords while at work yesterday and put them into my password manager. Then I forgot to send the database to myself so I couldn't get into DW or LJ this weekend. Oops!
Yesterday, I wrote:
At first I wasn't sure what to do yesterday, but then a number of things came along!
The most fun of the day was watching the Puppy Bowl with Danae and Lisa. There was a capybara! Capybaras are so cute! Not as cute as all the puppies though. Puppies! The Dog Bowl highlighting some older dogs was great too. I am a fan and will be back for it next year. If I can be organized enough, I'll make cookies shaped like dog bones. Maybe other food and treats if I can think of them.
Someone on Evanston Freecycle had two Ikea bookcases to get rid of so I drove over to get them. They were near us, in a beautiful late-1800s house on Orrington. The owner thanked me for being careful with the woodwork on the way down the right-angle stairs, and I said that it's such beautiful wood that I'd feel like a terrible person if I scratched it. Danae helped me get them upstairs using the dolly I trash-picked in the fall, I wiped off the water and grime from setting them down outside the car, and they're now waiting for assembly in our little hallway. The blood from my finger that I cut on one of the nails didn't wash off as easily though.
I got my studded tire on my rear bike wheel. I left the smooth Gatorskin on the front since it's still serviceable and roads aren't that icy right now. The chain, having been outside and unused since December, was rusted badly enough that I walked to the bike shop for a new one. Lastly, I adjusted the front derailleur again (it keeps rotating slowly around the seat tube, eventually making it impossible to shift to the smallest chainring) and all seemed well. I rode to work this morning and it was wonderful! The weather was Spring-like and halfway there, I took my vest off.
I'll need to buy a cassette of gears for the rear wheel. I do 80% of my riding in gears 2-5 and 2-6, and the teeth on those sprockets are worn down enough by the old chain that the new one is skipping significantly on them. I did most of my riding today in 3-2 and 3-3 and the lack of range was a bit hard on my leg muscles.
Yesterday, I wrote:
I'm not quite sure what to do today. I want to work on my electronics project, but I need to order a socket*. The weather is warm enough that I'm thinking seriously about finally fixing up my bicycle because I'm really tired of not being able to ride to work. But the weather will get cold again. Still, it'll be warm this week, so that's probably what I'll do.
*The project includes a discrete transistor amplifier on it's own board. That board has headers that slot into the 8-pin socket for the LM386 amplifier. I tried to insert the headers into the socket and mangled a couple of pins. Now it doesn't work with the chip either."
At first I wasn't sure what to do yesterday, but then a number of things came along!
The most fun of the day was watching the Puppy Bowl with Danae and Lisa. There was a capybara! Capybaras are so cute! Not as cute as all the puppies though. Puppies! The Dog Bowl highlighting some older dogs was great too. I am a fan and will be back for it next year. If I can be organized enough, I'll make cookies shaped like dog bones. Maybe other food and treats if I can think of them.
Someone on Evanston Freecycle had two Ikea bookcases to get rid of so I drove over to get them. They were near us, in a beautiful late-1800s house on Orrington. The owner thanked me for being careful with the woodwork on the way down the right-angle stairs, and I said that it's such beautiful wood that I'd feel like a terrible person if I scratched it. Danae helped me get them upstairs using the dolly I trash-picked in the fall, I wiped off the water and grime from setting them down outside the car, and they're now waiting for assembly in our little hallway. The blood from my finger that I cut on one of the nails didn't wash off as easily though.
I got my studded tire on my rear bike wheel. I left the smooth Gatorskin on the front since it's still serviceable and roads aren't that icy right now. The chain, having been outside and unused since December, was rusted badly enough that I walked to the bike shop for a new one. Lastly, I adjusted the front derailleur again (it keeps rotating slowly around the seat tube, eventually making it impossible to shift to the smallest chainring) and all seemed well. I rode to work this morning and it was wonderful! The weather was Spring-like and halfway there, I took my vest off.
I'll need to buy a cassette of gears for the rear wheel. I do 80% of my riding in gears 2-5 and 2-6, and the teeth on those sprockets are worn down enough by the old chain that the new one is skipping significantly on them. I did most of my riding today in 3-2 and 3-3 and the lack of range was a bit hard on my leg muscles.
