I woke up this morning just after 6:00AM and couldn’t get back to sleep. I had just heard Steve get home (big up to the party professional) and didn’t really want to have a sleeping pill, so I got some clothes on and went for a ride around the river.

I got my bike back on Tuesday and hadn’t taken it for a spin, so it was a great opportunity to test it out. I think it’s better to ride now than it was when I bought it! I was supposed to take the bike back after a few months and have the bike shop check the gear and brake cables, lube up the movin’ parts and generally tighten what needed tightening, but being the slack mofo that I am, I never did. Now the gears stay where they’re meant to, move when they’re meant to and the brakes clamp solid.

I didn’t want to get bored on the ride, so I dug out an AM/FM radio that Sun Microsystems had given us at the 2003 Australian Linux Conference. It’s been replaced with this model (mine’s more of an elongated oval, and is the Sun blue and yellow corporate colours):

(It just took me 45 minute to find Sun’s logo merchandise catalogue, for a damn picture! :)

What I’d really like is an iPod, but not until they’re cheaper, have a 120GB disk inside (so I can use it as general, secondary storage for the laptop) and a colour screen. I might we waiting a while…

I rode down to Labouchere, then to BP and bought a lemon Powerade, and went across the Narrows, along past the Bell Tower, and over the Causeway. I went past Richie’s place and came up Coode. All up it took me about 40 minutes, and I can tell I’m really out of shape. I felt great after the ride, but my legs had turned to jelly! I’d really like to have the willpower to get up each morning for a ride, but we all know that’s not likely to happen.