A Geek Goes Flying

Wearing the “COVID six,” I started riding my bike into the office again. Before (years and years ago), it was an awesome, fat-melting 17 mile trek down the beach into the south bay. Now, it’s 3 miles, but, better than nothing. My current commuter, at the office. Trek 2100zr promotional photo I’m still riding the same bike I was back then, a circa 2006 or 2007 58cm  Trek 2100zr I got from  i.Martin . It’s still mostly stock, with some accessories added. A couple of years ago, I had Helen’s refurbish it to deal with years of beach riding abuse (corrosion on the cables, new handlebar tape, etc). I got a good deal on it; the next year’s models were already out and they needed to clear it off the showroom floor. I want to say I spent $700, against a sticker price of $1299? Anyway. Frame: ZR 9000 Alloy w/TCT Carbon seat stays Fork:  Bontrager Approved, Carbon Wheels:  Bontrager Select Tires: Bontrager Race Lite, 700x23c (though if I ever need to swap rubber, I’ll pr

After my ArkaHosting VPS went deadpool , BanditHost seemed solid , so I setup a fairly massive database and front end on a virtual server there. It’s been offline for a few days and I finally had a minute to dig into it. Yup. They’re dead, too . Ungh. I do not  have the time to populate that massive database again (it’s dozens of gigabytes). At least I have the code backed up, and the MariaDB instance on the VPS was a slave being populated by a master I host on a RAID-equipped Linux server at home.