Taking the Dip

Broke down and chose to go for the multisport training. Partly due to curiousity but mostly due to my body not handling larger volumes of single sport training. Tired of trying to buy new shoes, insoles, etc to avoid pain. Rediculous. Coach feels he can manage my issues with tri training with less time in any one sport. Time will tell.... Looks like I will spend about a month just learning how to float. Suprising at how different swimming is from how you learn (dont drown) to swimming efficiently. Should be interesting.

Oh yeah. Got a PS3. Mostly for the company DLNA gateway functionality we have implemented. Should be interesting.

Delorme Update

Well the unit was not what I was hoping for. While the unit was certainly a great all in one device, it did not really mount in an appropriate way to my roadbike bars. More so it did not mount at all. The only bike mount I found was more for mountain bike bars. Clearly not for higher speed aero positions. Was unfortunate but as could be expected. In addition their TOPO software which is really the only one out there doing elevation profiles (i have found) could not take a route made on a ride, and convert that to turn by turn directions. Really doing understand how this is not possible. I mean you have a billion waypoints, all going in the same direction on main roads. Can not the software TELL this and just point out the road and the turn? Really strange. Had it done that I would have tried to find a workaround to the handbar issue but it was just too many strikes in my opinion. Maps have gotten better but still not 1005. There is a road in my neighborhood that has not even existed for at least the 5 years I have been here, yet it still shows as a road on the software. Delorme did finally get my neighborhood on the map, even though google earth, yahoo, and MS all had them on their sites years before. Just really disappointing as I always though of Delorme as THE mapping company and that has clearly changed since I lived in Maine....

Ebayers

Man it still amazes me at the crap people will buy on Ebay. Just the idea of being able to buy new products and selling them off at a rate of price erosion that beats renting something is great. That said I hate PayPal and think Ebay totally screws their customers. How is it exactly that its a benefit to the seller to use PayPal? I mean I have no obligation as a standard of doing Ebay transactions, until the payment officially clears. Therefore the only party benefitting (and therefore who should pay for the service) , is the buyer. They are the ones benefiting for making the case that they can get something shipped faster as their payment is "instantaneous".

Regardless - I just charge the buyer. So far no one has balked at this..

And their RSA security key sucks. So far it has yet to be activated and their crack support team has yet to figure it out. BUT THEY DO HAVE MY 5 DOLLARS.