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[Nigelnaturist]

@stevey it don't take long, though I haven't had as long as you or @Mo1959 or @SatNavSaysStraightOn have had off continuously, I have have had periods where I have done very little, and understand a little what you mean.

 

[Tankengine]

Couple of nice rides this week, box hill which was great fun and a lot easier then been led to believe (waiting for it to kick up..never really did) and toys hill from the north (same story but less epic). Today got to the top of a steep hill out of cudham and stopped for breath at the top, thinking why does this relatively short hill kick my ass so much everytime? Turned around to look back down it and caught a road sign showing 25% gradient. Ah. That might be why.....

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Today it is raining.

Today it is wet.

Today it is cold.

I intend to remain esconced in the warmth and relative luxury of Spokey Dokey Towers.

However, on Sunday, I will have waded my crampon shod feet through the huge snow dump that currently shrouds Scafell and, atop the summit with my best mate, we will eat our Hot X Buns (plus swig of Brandy) and all will be right with the world.

 

[Stonechat]

Today it is raining.

Today it is wet.

Today it is cold.

I intend to remain esconced in the warmth and relative luxury of Spokey Dokey Towers.

However, on Sunday, I will have waded my crampon shod feet through the huge snow dump that currently shrouds Scafell and, atop the summit with my best mate, we will eat our Hot X Buns (plus swig of Brandy) and all will be right with the world.

Well have not done a lot today

To be more exact, after doggy walk, gave doggy a bath, dried him, and trimmed him
Last nioght made some home made hot cross buns, so had a couple today.
They are favourite but home made beat supoermarket ones when I can do it
(By home made I use the bread maker to make the dough but still have to make the busn, crosses and glaze them. I could not find the scales for the ingredients to make the dough - some of the post flooding confusion. So I more or less guessed, and when dough was too stiff had to add more liquid)
Delicious hot x buns
Will hopefully manage a ride sunday or Monday

 

[Stonechat]

Couple of nice rides this week, box hill which was great fun and a lot easier then been led to believe (waiting for it to kick up..never really did) and toys hill from the north (same story but less epic). Today got to the top of a steep hill out of cudham and stopped for breath at the top, thinking why does this relatively short hill kick my ass so much everytime? Turned around to look back down it and caught a road sign showing 25% gradient. Ah. That might be why.....

No Box Hill is an even enough gradient that you can try to push it or do repeats without too much effot

Do not know Cudham Hill though

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Well I have rearranged this room, I can get my computer chair in now, two computer systems, I had one in the bedroom and one in a dedicated room. Did cabling to yet another room, which had been all cabled up till th O.H. decided some months back it no longer needed it, (and now it does) and cut the cable at the entry point, so I have had to channel the plaster out again, which entailed the removal of a kitchen unit. The only thing i couldn't fix today was the network cable as I need some connectors to fix it. So after a blip last night when no ones upstairs T.V.s were working due to me mistaking the RF in to a splitter with an RF out, both the same cable outer so an easy mistake, most things are now working correctly, just did a speed test and getting 56Mb from the router through a switch box, the house network is all (or will be) 1Gb.

 

[Tankengine]

No Box Hill is an even enough gradient that you can try to push it or do repeats without too much effot

Do not know Cudham Hill though

Yeah that's actually what I thought when I got to the top. It's a really nice climb, shame it's so short.

Roads coming out of cudham are short and steep...downe road or church hill. The latter made difficult by needing to turn right at the end of it straight onto the last steep section of downe road

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Another day I am not likely to get out, need to take floor boards up again to run a new Ethernet cable, from the switch box here down to where the one the OH half cut, as at the minute its easier to do that that take up he lounge floor boards, as that is where the original ran to the router.

 

[Mo1959]

Another day I am not likely to get out, need to take floor boards up again to run a new Ethernet cable, from the switch box here down to where the one the OH half cut, as at the minute its easier to do that that take up he lounge floor boards, as that is where the original ran to the router.

Can you not just use wifi like the rest of us. Lol.

Lovely day here but couldn't be bothered going out.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Having relatives over for an Easter visit. I was hoping I'd catch something contagious and force a postponement, but no. Damn my virile bones.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Can you not just use wifi like the rest of us. Lol.

Lovely day here but couldn't be bothered going out.

Not seen a WiFi network work at 1,000 Mbs yet, unless you know something I don't, the fastest I know of is a dual band N which I believe over short distances can achieve 300Mbs or so maybe @SatNavSaysStraightOn can put me right, and not to forget reliability and security, no one can access your data if they can't get in.

 

[Learnincurve]

Got my first strava badge for doing a 2 hour ride

Got to the end of that ride and my hips were killing me, adjusted seat down a tiny bit and it's much better. Understanding far more how the steering woks and how shortening the stem has affected it, it's perfectly fine in the drops which is where I am 90% of the time and I'm starting to try to use the brakes on the top rather than suicide levers all the time now.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Just bagged an Athlon II triple core for £14+2.50pp this processor is capable of similar performance as my Q9400 quad core., which cost me £100 in 2010-11 (and still rocks compared with many), this will give the O.H. a bit of a performance boost till we can afford an FX processor this start at about £50 for the FX4100

this is just a cpu benchmark (the program does other stuff like memory, discs ect. as you can see Sandra's current Athlon 4800+ whilst it is no slouch if you compare it with a more modern processor like the FX, but its the 3 core 455 that really shines. So I think for about £43 for the mobo, and £17 for a processor i think thats pretty good value, for what is essentially a new system, I built a system, well the core parts for someone just before xmas and it cost £160 and its cpu mark is 2151, is only 25% better than Sandra's system now, so to get something approaching 1.8x better than that for £60 or so, with room for further improvements.

 

[pdh]

First ever 20 miler today average speed of just over 10 mph ....happy days

 

[Mo1959]

First ever 20 miler today average speed of just over 10 mph ....happy days

Well done. I think the first 20 miles always seems pretty special when you start out. Before long you will be using that as a warm up

What do you think of the Marin? I have looked at it online and quite like the specs of it.