Tag: bike

To Buy. Or not!

That is the question here…

I was pefectly happy with my bike, granted I have been _wanting_ a new bike. But I was happy with the one I had. Then Jason went and put this idea in my head, “Lets do LifeCycle“. Great! Sounds like tons of fun.

I kept up wanting to do it, but didn’t put much energy into the whole shopping for a new bike thing. But then he started going at it hard core, new bike this, new bike that. “I think I’m getting this one.” Blah blah blah. So I figred I had better get my ass in gear and get a new bike as well.

Well now, I have a bike I really like/want. But I’m just not comfortable dropping this much cash on it if he’s not going to get one as well. Also, I’m not sure I want to get it if we’re not going to do the lifecycle. I just don’t know. I can’t decide.

I look at it and think, “Oh it’s a great deal” but then I second guess myself and say, “But it’s so much money”. It really isn’t though! I save more then this every month. Ugh. I just need to dive in or get out. It’d be easier to dive in though if I knew for sure that my partner to dive in with was actually going to jump as well and not just stop at the edge and say, “I changed my mind” or something.

It’s all very frustrating!

This week has been very frustrating. I’ve been on a short string to explode with everyone. I haven’t been sleeping well (this seems to happen every year about this time, no?), and my tounge is VERY sore for some reason. So much so that it hurts to eat even soft foods like bread, or to talk or anything.

This weekend I have stuff to do, but no one to do it with. Getting up early tomorrow to head out hiking/exploring. Sunday I have RSVPed for the first area LifeCycle Training ride. Perhaps I will meet someone cool there. Doubtful though, if I even go. We all know how I chicken out when having to go to large group functions.

I hate it.

Well my batery is nearly dead. I think I am going to head to the bike shope and check it out. Laters.

Ebay

Lately I’ve been bidding on a lot of Ebay Items… Bikes mostly since we’ve been in the market for those.. From different sellers. Now I’m not really sure what’s going on here though! First, I’ll bid, I usually wait till like the 8 hours to even start bidding on something. However in nearly ALL the auctions that I’ve been bidding on EVERY bid will be cancelled by the seller in like the last 5 hours or so. I’ll re-bid. Cancelled again! WTF is going on here?

I took the time to e-mail E-Bay, standard FAQ response. I e-mailed one of the sellers. Claims he was hacked? Is this happening to ALL these people? How can they all be getting hacked. It always has the same withdraw reason too “Wrong bid”… Then usually after the auction ends I get a 2nd chance notice… I always go directly to ebay.com and then find the auction and then e-mail the seller via that form. The seller always replies back saying they didn’t say it. WTF is going on here?

Is Ebay really that bad of a place that so many people are being scammed? What happens with these apparently fake 2nd chance offers? If someone follows through are they then scammed out of money or what?

One of them that it happened to was a car that I put an 18k bid in on. It was a car worth well over 30k so I knew I wouldn’t get it. But sure enough a day later I get a 2nd chance offer for the car at the bid price I put in. I called the dealership directly (they had the number up on the auction and I verified with google phonebook). Thier reply, “We relisted the item and did not send out any 2nd chance offers”.

In other news, I found a bike I really like, but it’s 1,200. Once you add in tax and all the accessories it’s going to be about 1,500. I’m realy not sure I want to spend that much at all. Though he is giving me a $300 discount on the bike itself! It’s just that if I get it, I had better do a lot of riding and I fear that this LifeCycle thing won’t come through, as much as I’d really like to do it, everyone knows that I don’t do things like that unless I am going with someone I already know. There’s the first training ride for it this Sunday at 8am. Perhaps I should go to it.

I’m also really concerned about Germany. Plans are still moving along, but things just keep coming up for the other two people who might be going. One of them has work commitments and needs all this approval crap, and the other needs to build up enough time off. I’m just not sure how we can pull this off. But again, everyone knows I freak out about the pre-planning on things. I just need to get them both together at the same time, sit down and figure out what’s going to happen! Cause damnit. I WANT TO GO!

Today on Digg.com There was this cool thing about wallets I want the last one that is $340 It’s so pretty and would match my powerbook amazingly. But I also found this one called The Jimi, it’s so cute.

I was supposed to have a meetng today with someone to take over this guys website, but the current weblord hasn’t been around all day. I’m a bit nervous because I’m supposed to do the first update tomorrow and have ZERO information as to what I need to do!!!

And lastly, I saw Woz on The Daily Show (i think?) the other day and he showed his Business card. Now that is ONE cool card!

Laters

RUDE PEOPLE

UGH! Why are people so RUDE.

So Friday, I didn’t really do anything. Wasn’t in the mood to. I worked on my mythbox. I moved it over from the 700mhz machine to a 2.2Ghz with SATA drive. So it’s much faster now. Very nice. It was a PAIN in the ass to get working. First I downloaded and tried Gentoo, but it kept crashing on the build. So I went with Fedora Core 5. I JUST got it all working a few hours ago. Lots of stress and stuff.

Anyways, Saturday I was supposed to help Mike move. He said he would call me at 10 to tell me when he’d be here… So i got up at like 8:30 and wondered around the house, ate breakfast, etc. 10 rolls around, nothing… 11 comes and I txt him.. “Where are you”… he’s JUST THEN getting the damn truck. He told me on FRIDAY that he was getting it at 7am! UGH! Said he’d be here at 2.

So I go and do laundry. Come back at 2. Nothing, wait till 3, still nothing. I txt him. “Where are you?”… “Just leaving Irvine”… So I tell him I’m going shopping because I’m not going to waste my whole day waiting for him and I wold come over once I’m done. Go shopping for an hour which is what it should have taken to get from Irvine to Redondo. Come back and he’s STILL not here yet… Finially at 5ish he txts me. “be there in 20”.. I wait ANOTHER hour, and sitll nothing.. “You here yet?”.. sends one back saying that he is here… THEN WHY DIDN’T YOU CALL ME. So he calls me and I flip out on him. I wasted my whole day trying to be NICE to him to help him fucking move, and he doesn’t even have the comon courtesy to call me and keep me up to date as to what’s happening. If you’re going to be 15 minutes late when someone is taking time out of thier day to help you MOVE then you should be on the damn phone letting them know and appolgizing.

I HAD wanted to go horseback riding with Austin, but cancelled that to help this guy. UGH! So annoying.

I also got in a fight with Andrew this weekend cause he’s going to the Getty Villa with ChrisA… He and I have been talking about going there forever… and now he’s suddenly got tickets and can go and doesn’t even bother to let me know. UGH! He was like, “well you can come along”… Yeah and be the third wheel, thatsounds fun.. then he said I could just get tickets for Monday… Again, sounds like TONS OF FUN! go by myself. thanks! UGH!

So thennnnnn. I wanted to go out, Jason and Austin had both earlier asked what I was doing that night, both had made indications (although no real plans) that we could do something that night.. So I message them both… OUT somewhere else. UGH! So I ended up sitting on my fucking couch like a loser again.

Soooo then….. Saturday I had talked to Jason about going bike shopping on Sunday, and getting together to talk about Germany… He said. “Sure, I have a flight @ 2 if weather is good”. So _ME_ that indicates that we have plans and that WE ARE going to go bike shopping. I told him I had a meeting at 10 and would be avaliable after. So I get home and message him, he says, “What’s today?”… UGH! UGH !HGHHGHGHHGHGHTUFHDGHGUHF! So then he’s like, “I’ll let yo know” blah blah blah.. 2 hours later, “are we not doing this today or what?”.. “help up… 2 more hours”… then I get a txt message… “saw leo dicaprio”… WHAT! WHAT!?!?? What the fuck are you doing! We made PLANS to go bike shopping, clearly.

UGH! fucking people. they are all really pissing me off right now. UGH!

Wasted Day

Ugh, so yesterday was a COMPLETE waste of a day. I had a meeting in Newport Beach, so I think GREAT! I can check out the Bike Shop that JP is always talking about. I check it out online, they are open on Wed’s! So I drive down there… Get in about 9:30 and I have an e-mail, meeting…. CANCELLED! Great… NOT! So I do some work and at lunch I drive down to the bike shop…. CLOSED! UGH! COMPLETLY wasted day! I didn’t get home till 8 last night, ate dinner and went to bed.

Woke up about 3:30 this morning from a horrible dream in which bears were terrorizing my family’s back yard. Random. They even someone dragged my Grandma into the pond. Thankfully we saved her, with minor wounds. So I go to check my cell phone (AKA, Alarm Clock & only clock in the house).. “Searching for Service…”. So I think GREAT! Another wonderful thing. I figure it’s just stupid so I take out the battery and put it back in.. “Searching…” I watch it for a while and nothing comes up, so I go searching the house for my watch, which I haven’t been wearing and had no idea where it was at. Finially find it and it says 3:30. I go back to bed, but of course now I can’t sleep because I’m affraid that my Phone has no idea what time it is and thus won’t go off in the morning.

So I lay there and lay there.. Finially it’s time to get up and my alarm clock DOES go off! Stupid phone, but it still refuses to tell me what time it is, just “Seaching….” UGH. I Shower and come back, get dressed and NOW it has service. Very annoying.

Drive into the office and get stuck behind some idiot who clearly has no idea how to drive… Speeding along 80mph, no one is infront of them, BRAKES! 60…. back up o 80… BRAKES.. 60. back and forth, and the traffic in the lane next to us was so heavy that I couldn’t get over!

I _REALLY_ want to go to Germany. I found tickets there in Nov for $550.. I found some in Jan for $626.. Anyone want to go!?!?!??! PLEASE! I’d be willing to make arrangements on costs. 😛

I also REALLY want to freaking buy a house somewhere. I’ve been looking online and reading up about what I need to do. I’m just too scared and I can’t decide WHERE to buy a house. Everywhere I think to look seems like a not good place to buy…. I just don’t know.

I spent a lot of time the other day updating my family’s website… I even sent out REALLY long letters to everyone explaining what I did and I created them all login’s etc. But no one has replied or updated it. 🙁

OMG, Terrorist in IOWA!… What’s going on over there you crazy Iowans?!

Well I have stuff to do, maybe. Adios.

Kyle XY

OMG, I’m IN LOVE with Kyle XY, his hair, his voice, his facial expressions… Amazing… Bring him to me!! And, he’s my age!!! YUMMMY!

There was clearly something wrong with my last theme, which was limiting my Google search results… Last month Google refered 135 people to my site, this month its been 676…. Most of my search results come from “Boyfriend Application”.. haha.

Speaking of, certian people who I haven’t talked to in nearly 2 months are STILL making fun of me on myspace about having that up. Idiots. Get over it people… “And yes, you will not be seeing a BF application on my site anytime soon. Although it would be funny to put up as a joke and be a little shit about it :)”… Why are people so fucking childish.

Last night was nice, I nailed my clock together and painted it… Everyone in my apartment complex probably thinks I’m crazy now.. But it’s going to look SO FUCKING cool. Did I mention I ordered the electronics? I just hope that they come the way I want them too, because if the LEDs come already soldered to the circuit boards then we’re going to have problems! At least the hardest part (or what I think is the hardest part) is done, and that’s programming the control board. I also hope that the LEDs are bright enough, because if not, then I’ll have to buy more.. and what if the boards aren’t able to carry the electical capacities then!?!?! OMG, so much could potentially go wrong here!

After that I went on a short bike ride, got home and was supposed to go out and have a drink with this guy, but he got held up at work. We’re going to try getting together again tonight, we’ll see if that happens.

Today, I had a meeting… First off, no one knew if it was at 10 or 11. The invite said 10, the WebEx said 11, and the e-mail I got about it said 11-10:30? WTF people. And the person hosting the meeting wasn’t replying to things… Ugh. It ended up being at 11, but it was such a waste. We’re supposed to start supporting this new software that’s coming on line early next week… Yeah, we didn’t get trained on how to do any of it.. The whole meeting was basically… “Heres what we need to have meetings about to get this going”. Ugh. I don’t see HOW these people get work done.

I left shortly after the meeting and went to the grocery store, the boss is having a BBQ tomorrow and I was going to make these Mexican roll-up things. So I go to the store, and they don’t have anything CLOSE to what I need. So I had to make something else.. So I called my aunt, she told me what to buy and.. I made them. I don’t think they came out right. 🙁 Still taste ok, but I’m not going to make everyone at work eat them. Perhaps I’ll just stop and buy something pre-made at the store before going.

Came home and put the second coat of paint on my Clock.. Check out the photodump to see pics of it… Hopefully it will be completed this weekend! That is, if all the parts work as said! (I also added more pics to the Pirates of the Caribbean library.)

Heading out to a bike ride soon and then who knows…

Adios!