A Winter Ride turns into Fire

I rode in to work yesterday along the River Bottoms.  The commute in was about 14 miles and 1:45, definitely a slow go on the snow covered trail.  It was a good ride in other than the messenger bag constantly shifting on the bumpy trail.

I have commuted to work numerous times but have never ran into the burning messenger bag until today.  Of all the numerous times I have thrown my light in my messenger bag for the commute home, I have never had my light turn itself on.  This is not a good situation, things get hot in a hurry and items get wrecked.  Thankfully my fire was caught and put out quickly. The only thing that really got damaged was my shoes that have a hole going right through them. 

Headshok Suspension Fork

SOLDThis fork is currently on ebay and is in excellent shape.  Here is the link Ebay Sale

Ebay

I hate to sell my stuff, but money is tight for the unemployed.  I have tried locally to sell my stuff as much as possible through various classified resources and by word of mouth, but it's just not happening.  I would much rather deal with someone personally, so they can get a first hand view of the item and evaluate it themselves.  It's also nice to know someone locally is getting to enjoy a product.

The ebay thing is kind of a pain, lots of questions from anonymous people.  While questions are fine, a majority of the questions can simply be answered by just reading the ad. 

I am a mechanic by trade and by genetics.  My idea of describing a product is pretty straight forward without all the fluffy marketing crap.  Also when I describe something as excellent, my description may fall short of someones expectations since excellent can mean so many things.  To me these items are products to be used and the mechanical nature of the thing is of the utmost importance and the aethestics or cosmetics is secondary.  I have had no problems nor do I predict having any I just hate selling things because of that inherent flaw with anonymous commerce. And that Ebay collects approximately 10-12% of everything.

In the news today.

I need a pair of these glasses.

Man arrested for stealing Christmas Tree  Grinch who Stole Christmas .  The new Radio Shack jersey is released  Radio Shack Jersey.

In the name of god remove those bike lanes.  The Holy have the bike lanes removed

Craigslist Sale Items

Cannondale Headshok Blue http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/bik/1438580119.html SOLD

Rock Shox Sid http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/bik/1438577618.html SOLD

Raleigh Cyclocross 58 http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/bik/1438564328.html

Burley D'Lite 2 Child Folding Trailer http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/bik/1438592751.html SOLD

Cannondale Leffty http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/bik/1438582463.html SOLD

Rock Shox Sid

Coming to ebay soon.

Bleeping Computer's

Over the course of time, my computer has gotten bogged down with various apps and such that conflict with each other etc.  Each app fighting for it's own prominence amongst the computer and creating a tangled web of complexity.  So I decided to fix that by returning my computer to it's former self.  The Gateway Laptop came with a partitioned hard drive that contained a backup, so that it could be restored to original condition.  So far it all sounds great and simple.  The plan to restore my computer and gain back some of my resources that have certainly been altered by the competing applications.  Restore went good.  Takes a lot of time to get back all the security patches from Microsoft.  Reinstalled the essential apps not supplied with the computer.  But here is the problem my hard drive has been cut in half in terms of remaining storage capacity.  The operating system can not possibly take up 50 GB. So upon further examination it looks like the backup is present with the new install and takes up half of the used space.  Should be simple to delete that folder called backup, but its not.  It will not let me delete it.  I have searched for solutions and found links to two similiar methods for removing this folder, but neither one is accomplishing the job.  Any suggestions?

http://support.gateway.com/s/software/MICROSOF/vista/7515425/7515425faq3.shtml

Problem fixed. http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic85514.html