I still feel grumpy, like a “bear with a sore head” as Mrs DDWT would say – so you’ve been warned. I don’t know what it is, perhaps it’s sleep deprivation or the impending end of summer making me feel this way or maybe it’s just blokes ‘time of the month’ – is there such a thing?
Not event a 10 mile odd spin on the bike lunchtime could raise my spirits above the height of a door knob. I didn’t even enjoy it in all honesty, the very strong wind in my face put paid to that. Although I was mightily impressed with my 28.7mph sprint finish at the end *smile*
I’m off down the Liberty tomorrow night to see the Swans take on the Glovers of Yeovil – so gawd help them if I’m still in this mood. In fact steer clear of the DDWT house if the Swans lose as I’m unlikely to be in the best of hwyls.
After the shock of seeing the route for the BikeWales West ride yesterday, I decided that I needed to pull my finger out and go for a lunchtime ride. I opted to venture along to Gowerton via the Clyne Valley cycle path, taking in the pleasant woodland that surrounds most of the ride along the way. It was a roundtrip of around 14 miles but going at a steady pace it gave me the workout I was after.
I’ve been potching around with loads of different web-related things of late (Ubuntu, Debian, RT, Phplist, RSS, etc) but for the life of me I can’t be arsed to write about it. Perhaps it’s just that I’m bored of blogging about techy bits, especially as most people find it a rather mundane and boring subject. Maybe it’s becuase I’ve been fiddling around with so many different bits and bobs that I don’t know if it’s the front door – back door or even if it’s upstairs or downstairs. Anyway, I’ll get my anorak and go and lie down.
Known as ‘Ubuntu‘ – that’s an African word meaning “humanity to others” – this linux operating system is somewhat of a newbie in terms of a distribution, but users of Debian will be familiar with it as that is where it’s roots are.
After dabbling with Debian the other day and trying to get RT to work with it (unsuccesfully) I decided to try another linux distro, in the form of Ubunto (server version 6.06) and hey presto it worked after a bit of tweaking. So having wasted the best part of a day and a half with plain and was now up and running with RT within a couple of hours. Oh well, at least I learnt a great deal about CPAN and APT along the way. I just hope the bossman thinks it’s a worthy piece of software now.
I finally managed to find out today the route (albeit very vague) for the BikeWales West bike ride on October 1st. As I’m going for the ‘silver’ ride – 50 miles – the route starts at the National Waterfront museum in Swansea before going via Pontardawe, Ystalyfera, Brynamman, Glanaman, Ammanford, Pontarddulais, Gowerton, Fforestfach and back to the museum to finish. I used the AA route finder system to get a rough map and it gives the distance as approximately 48 miles. Anyway, it looks like a tough, challenging ride but exciting all the same!
Anyone shopping in Pontardawe recently might have noticed a new product range that has been launched by Tesco.
I mean have you heard of “Ducth Skinless Breast Fillets” before? No me neither. All very amusing really and perhaps more important they tasted ok – not that I’d know the difference in taste between a Dutch chicken or any other nationality of chicken to be perfectly honest.
For the health concious amongst you who are wondering why I’m only now eating them – even with a best before date of 13 July – it’s because they’ve been in the freezer!
I’ve managed to lose another 1lb this week and am now down to 16st 10lbs, so I’ve only got another 3lbs to go before I’ve reached my target weight.
Haven’t been up to a great deal today, potched about in the garden this morning prepping it…..for the turf that I haven’t even ordered yet! The rest of the day has been spent with DDWT Junior having lots of fun playing with his play dough, painting and dancing to all kinds of music. In fact it’s the most fun I’ve had in ages and it was great to spend so much quality time with him.
