On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:37:49 -0500, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:41:33 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:
It seems to have been delayed a very long time.
Tuesday 15 January 2025
Ran MozBackup -- no dice. I've lost a lot of saved e-mails, and I
don't even know how many people were on the Banner's mailing list.
But I'm connected to the printer, so I can print tomorrow's chore
list. And make map snippets, if I'm ever allowed to leave the house
long enough to ride far enough to need one.
DosBox is loaded, but I haven't tried it out yet. I'm not happy with
Libre Office; I hope the current version of Open Office hasn't been "improved" as much. Haven't tried FileZilla yet.
Thunderbird needs a lot of adjusting. Even Notebook has been gussied
up with a bunch of stuff that I will have to turn off.
Saturday 18 January 2025
All the e-mail stuff that was on the dead computer is officially unrecoverable. All those years of faithfully making backups, only to discover that it won't *restore*!
I've got a lot of stuff off Vista onto Windows 11, but I'm too tired
today to move Agent. (Also, the monitor for the new computer is a
narrow horizontal slot. I hope that I can hook it to this one, but
the connectors to monitors have been pointlessly changed.)
I slept from the time the home helper left at three until past time to
put supper on the table. She's supposed to come on Thursdays, but
there was some sort of emergency and the only time she could
re-schedule was today, which neatly blocked a one-time thrift shop at
the high-school theater and both winter markets. It was too wet for
an eighty-three-year-old to ride a bike anyway, but I could have gone
by car.
I'm pretty sure that home helper visits conflict with meals on
purpose, on the assumption that she has to prepare the meal.
The forecast is for very cold and dangerously windy. We had the
January Thaw today, so there may be puddles of ice when I walk
tomorrow.
The forecast is for very cold and dangerously windy. We had the
January Thaw today, so there may be puddles of ice when I walk
tomorrow.
On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 22:37:20 -0500, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
The forecast is for very cold and dangerously windy. We had
the January Thaw today, so there may be puddles of ice when I
walk tomorrow.
There was. I let Lou Cook drive me home -- the streets were
clean, but our driveway was (and still is) glare ice. I may
have trouble fending her off next Sunday; most people are
aghast at the thought of walking more than a few feet, and I
really *need* that walk now that it's hard to get time to ride
a bike.
And typing with the key board on a table is a royal pain, even
with Dave's chair on its highest setting and two pillows on it.
Which is happening because I've got Agent on the new computer
and it worked right off! Had a terrible time copying it to the
Sneakernet drive -- Sneakernet had to be scanned and formatted,
and Explorer is really, really rotten at that sort of thing.
But I hope to shut off Vista tomorrow, and move this computer
onto my own desk. First I have to download my three Web sites
and my LETTERS folder.
On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:23:27 -0500,
Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 22:37:20 -0500, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
The forecast is for very cold and dangerously windy. We had
the January Thaw today, so there may be puddles of ice when I
walk tomorrow.
There was. I let Lou Cook drive me home -- the streets were
clean, but our driveway was (and still is) glare ice. I may
have trouble fending her off next Sunday; most people are
aghast at the thought of walking more than a few feet, and I
really *need* that walk now that it's hard to get time to ride
a bike.
I can relate. We're not all that far from you, so have very
similar weather. And the physical activity seems increasingly
necessary as I age (in my last 60s year now).
I don't go out on the bike when it's below 30 F, or if there is
chance of icy patches. Instead I ride a set of Kreittler rollers
in my garage (which has itself been damn could with the recent sub
zero outdoor temps).
Speaking of the rollers, I wanted some resistance when I got
them (25 years ago?) but wasn't that interested in the fan options
offered by Kreitler, So I cobbled the mag resistance unit of my
previous junky set of rollers onto the new ones.
Part of the flange on one side of the pulley on that unit has
broken off. I glued it together, but it broke of again. This
time I found a washer about the size of the outer side of the
flange, and glued it against the side of the pulley with JB Weld.
Seems likely to be pretty durable, but I've been trying (with no
luck) to get a replacment from McMaster-Carr as a backup. It
seems the shaft is a hair over 3/8" so the pulleys with 3/8" bore
won't slide onto the shaft. I tried drilling out the bore hole,
but don't have a drill press so the wider bore wasn't perfectly
straight (seems the pulley wobbles a bit when turning).
Is there such a thing as 1 cm bore pulleys? I'm not finding
anything that's clearly along those lines.
The next largest U.S. spec pulley is a 1/2" bore, which would be
too big. I suppose I could look for tubing that would fill the
gap between the shaft and a 1/2" bore pulley, but that seems like
a long shot (and maybe hard to track down).
Any other ideas from the brain trust?
And typing with the key board on a table is a royal pain, even
with Dave's chair on its highest setting and two pillows on it.
Which is happening because I've got Agent on the new computer
and it worked right off! Had a terrible time copying it to the
Sneakernet drive -- Sneakernet had to be scanned and formatted,
and Explorer is really, really rotten at that sort of thing.
But I hope to shut off Vista tomorrow, and move this computer
onto my own desk. First I have to download my three Web sites
and my LETTERS folder.
Good luck, hope it goes well, Joy!
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I don't go out on the bike when it's below 30 F, or if there
is chance of icy patches. Instead I ride a set of Kreittler
rollers in my garage (which has itself been damn could with
the recent sub zero outdoor temps).
Speaking of the rollers, I wanted some resistance when I got
them (25 years ago?) but wasn't that interested in the fan
options offered by Kreitler, So I cobbled the mag resistance
unit of my previous junky set of rollers onto the new ones.
Part of the flange on one side of the pulley on that unit has
broken off. I glued it together, but it broke of again.
This time I found a washer about the size of the outer side of
the flange, and glued it against the side of the pulley with
JB Weld.
Seems likely to be pretty durable, but I've been trying (with
no luck) to get a replacment from McMaster-Carr as a backup.
It seems the shaft is a hair over 3/8" so the pulleys with
3/8" bore won't slide onto the shaft. I tried drilling out
the bore hole, but don't have a drill press so the wider bore
wasn't perfectly straight (seems the pulley wobbles a bit when
turning).
Is there such a thing as 1 cm bore pulleys? I'm not finding
anything that's clearly along those lines.
The next largest U.S. spec pulley is a 1/2" bore, which would
be too big. I suppose I could look for tubing that would fill
the gap between the shaft and a 1/2" bore pulley, but that
seems like a long shot (and maybe hard to track down).
Any other ideas from the brain trust?
The Minoura mag unit is the most prevalent so I'll assume it's
that or rebranded Minoura. Just measured one and yes shaft is
10mm. Yes, 10mm shaft pulleys do exist, less common in USA.
Here's the first result in a search for "10mm shaft V belt belt
pulley"
https://www.ebay.com/itm/166027767983?itmmeta=01JJ7AA3FF2XYFAEBFF678FJ8Y&hash=item26a806b0af:g:gzwAAOSwluNkNQ9L&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4CodCO1vSDjg2xNOt8By6oBgR14HEvUANdveTIGUdj6NMd1fACLg%
Which is for a round band, same size as your Kreitler drive
belt, not a V belt.
Poly bands are easily shortened and spliced if you have a worn
spare handy. Light both ends and press together firmly. I have
a section of Kreitler roller band on my sewing machine for
example.
Most 10mm belt pulleys seem to be splined for notched belts:
https://www.precisionwormgear.com/photo/pc21405533-aluminium_internal_and_external_splines_timing_belt_pulley_rohs_approved.jpg
which are probably not helpful.
Arbor adapters are common and cheap (we have a lot of those
here) in myriad diameters but I could not find any between
metric shaft and SAE bore in a quick search.
The simplest solution would have been a 10mm bit or reamer in a
drill press. Too bad that didn't work out. The next would
probably be another 3/8" shaft V pulley (cheap) and someone
else's drill press.
I used Dave's four-wheeler to fetch the mail today.
But I hope to shut off Vista tomorrow, and move this computer onto my
own desk.
I get to go for a bike ride tomorrow! I'm going to a grocery four
whole miles away. Weather Underground says that it's going to be warm
enough that it's possible to get wet.
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:34:07 -0500, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
I get to go for a bike ride tomorrow! I'm going to a grocery four
whole miles away. Weather Underground says that it's going to be warm
enough that it's possible to get wet.
Ride somewhat curtailed: I'd planned to have lunch at the Panda
Express near Meijer, and fiddled around moving my old horizontal
monitor to my new computer, etc. thinking to leave an hour before time
for lunch. Ended up leaving at 12:12, and the pharmacy I planned to
stop at on the way back closes at four, so I needed to get there at
three, which meant leaving Meijer at two. I ate a fruit-and-grain bar
and a smoked snack stick.
I haven't lost as much muscle as I feared. I was halfway up McKinley
and realized "Hey! I haven't shifted down!" Up until then I'd been distracted a bit with blowing my nose. (McKinley is my own private
bikeway, and has no intersections before one gets to the top.) (The
city paved it a few years ago in hope of selling the Gatke buildings,
but finally had to demolish them themselves.)
Bedtime
Sunday, 26 January, 2025
I was much concerned that it took me twenty-five minutes to ride from
Zales to home, but after going to bed, I remembered that instead of
riding around the building and crossing Center on Lincoln, I'd gone to
the coming-in-when-westbound-on-Center exit of the parking lot and
waited a few minutes before realizing that it would be quicker to go
to the stoplight. Then there was some inconveniently-synchronized
traffic on Winona when I wanted to cross, then I stopped at our
mailbox and made some false starts at safely stashing two important
letters. (I'd stashed the mail insecurely before remembering that I
have a document slot for maps and stuff on the insulated pannier.)
Sunday evening. I think I wrote the above after taking my middle-of-the-night pill. I've forgotten what I meant to say about
the ride.
Checking the weather for next Saturday's ride (not bad), I noted that
on Friday, we're due for "Light Rain 1.3 in". An inch is "light"?
Monday, 27 January 2025
I meant to enlarge upon "stronger than expected after all this time".
It took only forty-six minutes to ride to Meijer when I'd allowed an
hour, and I stopped to investigate a squeaky pannier. Only
thirty-seven minutes to ride from Meijer to Zales, and I stopped to
re-tie a scarf that had loosened while I was in Meijer.
Google Maps says it's 3.3 miles, 5.3 mph, 9 kph.
I think I used the wrong conversion factor for kph.
4.5 miles for trip out. 36 minutes. 7.5 mph.
I'd better send this now if I want to do it today.
Been very wet in uk, but have dry day so planning a longer explore late afternoon/evening to meet folks in the pub later.
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