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Last weekend I found time to make a minor update to my CycleLog.  The Bikes page now features a lightbox image popup for each of the bike images.  This now allows for a small thumbnail image that can be clicked to view in a larger size.  This is what I wanted to do all along, but didn't have the time back when I added the images.  This was really needed as the original image sizes were too large which resulted in horribly slow page loads.  Plus the reduced image display size looked really lousy.  So all is well now, although I need to update the Centurion Ironman image since the bike was rebuilt.

So a few months ago Mary Lou and I ordered Chinese food for dinner.  And of course it came with fortune cookies.  Here was her fortune…



So clearly this means she should trust me implicitly and never question any place I may go or anything I may do.

So then I opened mine…



Oh, yeah, I obviously have immunity here because of her fortune.  She needn't be concerning her pretty little head with anything I may be doing or anyone I may be doing it with.

Unfortunately she didn't seem to quite see it this way for some reason.  :)  We did have a very long hearty laugh while discussing all of this though!

I'm a huge fan of PostSecret and read it every week.  Often some very compelling stuff.  Anyhow, apparently he (Frank) also has a PostSecret MySpace page…sorry I've never been there and only to few other MySpace pages when there isn't an alternative.  So much of it is crap.  And now he's learned one of the biggest issues of when you publish your content on a site you don't control: Censorship.  Apparently you can view it if he "friends" you.  Another bullshit concept in my opinion.  If you've got something to say, say it.  If you want feedback, accept it.  And don't make me have to be your "friend".  (I'm looking at you LiveJournal people.)

Today I said goodbye to my old friend, my Schwinn Continental II.  This was my first road bike which I rode extensively in my formative years.  I had been working over the summer on converting it to a commuter bike, but decided it wasn't really going to work out as I had hoped.  So I began looking for something else and then acquired my Centurion Ironman Expert.

So not having a need for it and at my wife's encouragement to get rid of it, I gave it away today.  Hopefully it will see some practical use as I gave it away to a college student who was looking for a cheap bike to get around on.  So now it is gone and I'm moving on with "only" 4 bikes…for now.

Okay, this was resolved yesterday without any further incidents and things should be good to go.  Thus let me know if you find something odd happening.

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So you may have noticed that my site was down from late Monday through yesterday.  That was due to moving from one server to another (better) server by my hosting company.  It's all moved and appears to be faster —which is a good thing, but there's a couple of remaining issues.  At the moment my subdomains (myclient, polarblog, projects and sffl.polarlava.com) are not resolving although the configuration and data all appears to be there.  Also my photo gallery is not longer working and results in 500 server error when you go there.  Thus I have a support ticket open and currently am awaiting for a resolution of these issues.