Apr 9 - and a good time was had by all

We had a great end to the day with Dick & Nuala, Marda, Harris & Debbie, Sandy & Dave having dinner at the Thai place.  Before that we'd had snacks and a drink at our place (minus Debbie who was teaching Yoga), and then came back to our place for Sandy's Key Lime Pie.  I'm trying to think about how we'd recreate the same thing up north but it would have to be cottage-to-cottage-and-back, not cottage-to-Jake's-and-back.  Yes, being in-town is helpful at times !

I cleaned up my bike, as did Dick.  I also put on a new rear tire; existing one getting worn and 600k rides coming up.  Dick installed the two new rears and found the Michelin Wire in his existing rear tire that caused flats (could have been another brand, but you get the idea; we'll blame it on Michelin).

In the meantime, I also continued work on the Windows 7 environment.  It's quite convenient having both XP and W7 running on the same machine under VMware, being able to move stuff across, share files and whatnot.  I've got almost all of my critical software loaded up on W7 and one of these days, not too far in the future, I'll be typing this blog from that "machine".  In the process I've left behind a bazzilion things that are currently running in my XP task manager.  I'm getting used to W7.

One thing that I ran into this morning was in trying to setup Cobian Backup, I had to supply a user name and password.  Well, even though I was sure that I knew what my password is, I'd setup W7 to automatically log me on and perhaps I'd typed that password incorrectly.  I finally found a work-around, since "Dave" is an administrator, I created a new Dave Admin, switched users, changed Dave's password to what I thought it had been in the first place, switched users back and sure enough, I was OK.  Whew.  I really should have turned on the Administrator account as well ... I knew that but was sloppy.

There are some pieces of software that I won't install in W7, including the various years of Turbotax.  Since they're still there on XP and I can fire that up at any time, what's the point.  Hopefully I'll never need them anyway !  It almost begs for a separate W7 environment to install single-use types of things and not clutter up my "normal" operating environment.  That's something to think about.

John gave me a good workout yesterday, upper body only.  The 600k on the weekend will give me enough "legs" !  Speaking of which, I might or might not ride today.  Dick's going to take the day off.  He ran 21k yesterday; Nuala walked the same distance.  That's a long walk; not for me ! 

Onward ?