Al: a blog about bikes and stuff.

On Monday, after a weekend of no heating or hot water (well, I have a kettle) I managed to speak to the appropriate person at Criterion Asset Management who said she would organise a plumber straight away and have them call me to arrange access. Now, I’m not so naive as to expect a call…

So, this morning there is no hot water. I have an ‘on-demand’ system so I peer at the boiler, its looks okay but the ‘pressure’ dial is on zero. I have no manual, but sticker says this should be between 0.7 and 2.5, so zero is a bit low. I peer into the boiler and…

My new phone contract with Orange gives me “2 free downloadable Java games” a month. Joy, I so love playing game son my phone… err, not. Anyway, I thought last night that I would try it out, so I downloaded Repton, a game I remember well from playing at lunchtime in high school, on a…

They say you should learn something new every day. Today I learned that the powerful A/C in a server room can be put to good use… http://www.canford.co.uk/commerce/item_11-231_3000967.aspx

It has occured to me that in a weeks worth of driving with my iPod playing in random, not one Eagles song was played. This is unacceptable. I am also becoming weirdly obsessive about cooking rice… hmmm.

So I get home yesterday after a week away. I woke up this morning, looked at the clock and saw 8.30. May as well get up I think, so do and wander to the kitchen to make coffee, passing the VCR as I do, which says 7.30am… Bah! Alarm clock doesn’t self adjust, need to…

I’m off for a couple of days riding in mid-Wales. Need to give the new Heckler a proper shake down 😉 Actually went out on it (gender as yet determined) last Sunday and I died a death – not the bike, the bike was ace, but I am sooo unfit. Last night’s night race at…

Okay, so by now none of you care about my new Heckler, but I a going to tell you stuff about it anyway 😛 I received a call from Ed at John’s Bikes just before lunch to say he’d faced the headtube and fitted the headset (he’d made a blanker for the internal ream on…

So what else is there to do at 8am on a Saturday morning when you really want to be asleep but are wide awake? Well, by a car stereo that what! See, see, I am quite normal 😉 Its been weeks since some bastard stole the stereo out of my car and whilst on the…