I still have it….

I was scheduled to work today. But I woke up with it. It actually came on last night, when I was getting up from the chair after my last break at work. I still had it this morning, when I took my first pee, and I went into the shower.

I’m talking about plantar fasciitis, of course. And with the amount of walking I do at work, it’s not something I want to have. So I took another sick day. Not something I want to do on a holiday weekend, but I have to look out for my well-being.

When I was at my previous employer, foot problems were much worse. I started the day with a 4+ mile walk to the bus stop, then an 8-hour shift. But for the most part, I was just in one spot at work. Now, I don’t have to walk 4+ miles (thank to my bike, and the occaisional Uber). But I now walk essentially for 8 hours at work.

My foot should be walkable tomorrow. I hope. I don’t have enough sick time to cover another shift.

It’s about that time of year….

The Lunar year, to be exact. Anyway for those of you who are going to be fasting for the next lunar month or so: Ramadan Mubarak…

Finally…

Finally I got OpenSuSE installed. Into a VM. Which I immediately backed up to my external back-up drive because I really don’t have the time to install it again.

Of course right after I installed and backed it up, I wiped the drive because we all know that I just can’t leave well enough alone….

Called off the Linux install….

Started it at about 8 this evening. At 2:30 in the morning, it was still downloading, so I called it off. Was taking too much time, and I have to go to bed. I went and deleted my designated Linux partition, too. Problem is if I install Linux, and it messes up my computer, my only option would be to wipe my entire hard drive and start over. So, I think if I’m going to play with Linux, I’ll just go with Virtual Machines. Maybe my next computer will have enough space in the tower for more than one hard drive, and I can pursue the matter then.

Sorry, but I like being able to use my computer for really important stuff. Like Flight Simulator X…

So what happened Saturday…..

It actually happened Friday night. I rode the bike home from the bust stop (about 4 miles or so). Get home, and I put the bike on the stand. I went into my room, and an hour later, I hear a thud. My bike had fallen over. I put the bike back up. A few minutes later, I came back out and saw my bike leaning over. So I turned my bike around and backed it into my bike stand, and went to bed.

The next morning (Saturday), I get up and got ready for work. As I was about to leave, I went to get my bike off of the rack, and that’s when I noticed the reason why the bike couldn’t stay in the stand. My front tire was flat. But I had to go to right away (not enough time to fix it). On the bus ride up, I pulled out my phone and ordered a pair of inner tubes from Wally World. When I picked them up, they said I got the last two in the store. Normally, I wouldn’t order inner tubes when I’ve only had one flat on each tire, but I ordered them.

So Saturday night, I got home (I took Uber), I started fixing the flat. It was just a simple puncture, and patching it was pretty straight forward. So I started pumping it. Using the pressure gauge on my pump, I hadn’t even reached the recommended pressure on the tire. And the tube exploded. Sounded like a the love-child of a balloon popping and a gunshot. Fortunately, I had a brand-new inner tube that just happened to be the right size. Put the new tube in, reinflated it, and went to bed again.

Sunday morning, it held up enough. And I rode it home that night. And it’s still holding up. Just another adventure in cycling for a commute….