New battery

I changed the battery in the bike computer tonight, a real pain in the ass. I think I set it right, it wanted a 4 digit number that starts with 2. The Bell website is down, and the image for the splash page of the down site really looks shopped. The solution I was able to come up with was to read the wheel size on the tire, put it into the circumference equation, and then convert it to mm. It was only about 150 from the default, so I think I did it right.

Really, it was a 'cheap' computer, $15 if I remember correctly. Would it really be that hard for a cheap ass device to just ask the wheel size in inches? I don't know about my other computer, it was set by the bike shop, but it was somewhere between $30 and $60.

I get the blasted device set for the wheel size, and then it demanded to know how fat my ass is. Ok, it was just the weight, it seems to figure out calories burned. I forgot about that, but I have a watch that does the same thing, usually. It sometimes thinks my pulse in in the 200 range, and starts beeping at me like I am about to die. That would probably be true it if my pulse was that high, but it isn't. That tends to really screw up the calorie counts for the ride. I don't know how to change the weight on the computer, it took me 2 minutes to figure out how to change the clock. Seriously, I've rebuilt cell phones back in the day, and I was getting my ass kicked by a 3 button speedometer.


While writing the earlier blog today, my wife looked over and saw me typing and asked "wait, when did you start blogging?" with an almost incredulous sound to her voice. I kinda knew the next question was coming though, as I had answered her with "a long time ago, just never did it much." Yes, I had blogged before she had done a blogging lesson with her classes during the summer semester. Though to be even more fair, I had done a number of journals on DeviantArt back before blogging was really much of a word. Not that I expect to pull off even updating this. I updated the one for Bottles of Fire a whole twice. oye.

(AG12 battery from Radio Shack was just over $5 with tax. I guess it is thinner than an AG13. I know its not really an AG, I think the AG means akaline, and the new one is either silver oxide or Li. I don't really care which, as long as I don't need to bother with setting the damn wheel size again.)