Wine Country Century 5/6/2006

**maillotpois** · 05-01-2006, 09:27 AM

And drink a ton of water. It is finally starting to get warm, so give your legs and bod some water to hydrate from your ride this weekend.

Good news about WCC is all the routes seem like they're pretty and you may well be able to start the metric and then do a bail out and make a shorter route - probably Deanna would know better, since she's "connected" and I don't know the 35/metric routes too well. But Iknow the 200k can easily be cut shorter, so I imagine the same is true for the others.

Go for it!! We finally have NICE weather so you will want to take advantage of it!!!

**cindysue** · 05-01-2006, 10:01 AM

quick note to let y'all know that I will end up doing the metric instead of the full century. No time on the bike in the last couple weeks due to double thesis duty and my only riding day spent trying to recover my files (my computer crashed and burned and is no longer useable - what timing, huh?)

see ya saturday!

**SadieKate** · 05-01-2006, 10:10 AM

OMG! I hope you had everything backed up!

Originally Posted by cindysue

p.s. limited posting until June....

Anyone else think this is funny?

**cindysue** · 05-01-2006, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by SadieKate

OMG! I hope you had everything backed up!

I was able to recover everything - thanks to the geeksquad and my credit card. thank goodness but too bad they couldn't salvage my computer. I'm now typing from my much slower PC -- and in the market for another laptop. Any suggestions on where/what to buy?

Originally Posted by SadieKate

p.s. limited posting until June....
Anyone else think this is funny?

I was wondering when someone would say something. It's an addiction and a distraction - I'm the queen of getting distracted when it comes to these stupid theses. Gawd I'm a hateful person to be around these days.........

**snapdragen** · 05-01-2006, 10:17 AM

/geek on

cindy - were you able to rescue any of your files? Do you know what died? Can the hard drive be pulled and hooked up to another box?

/geek off

Originally Posted by cindysue

quick note to let y'all know that I will end up doing the metric instead of the full century. No time on the bike in the last couple weeks due to double thesis duty and my only riding day spent trying to recover my files (my computer crashed and burned and is no longer useable - what timing, huh?)

see ya saturday!

**cindysue** · 05-01-2006, 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by snapdragen

/geek on

cindy - were you able to rescue any of your files? Do you know what died? Can the hard drive be pulled and hooked up to another box?

/geek off

they couldn't pinpoint it. But they did say my computer was "hosed"
- really! I have it in writing

**snapdragen** · 05-01-2006, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by cindysue

they couldn't pinpoint it. But they did say my computer was "hosed"
- really! I have it in writing

Well, yes, hosed it a word bandied about in the geek world quite a bit....
Glad you were able to recover your stuff!

**winddance** · 05-01-2006, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by cindysue

they couldn't pinpoint it. But they did say my computer was "hosed"
- really! I have it in writing

That is so helpful.

I think the only advice I can give you is to avoid Dell, particularly if you ever think you might want to call customer service. If you are cool with taking care of stuff on your own, they have some great deals, but my one experience with their customer service had me nearly homicidal.

**SadieKate** · 05-01-2006, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by cindysue

"hosed"

Also spelled "T-O-A-S-T."

**jobob** · 05-01-2006, 07:40 PM

Well, I'm all set, I test-rode my AV sleeveless jersey and bolero this past weekend.

I'm going to be stylin', gasping on the side of the road

But I dislike suffering so I'll do the metric instead of the century

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