Since my Dell DJ battery is too big but it still works I have to just keep it on the outside lol. I have a neoprene camera case that it fits perfectly into and I had it out because I was adding a CD to the and all of a sudden it shut off and I looked and one of the wires snapped off where it had been soldered. Needless to say I’m not happy because when I start riding my bike again I will have no music to listen to unless I can find someone with a soldering iron.
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A Bicycle Built for Two
I suggested to Darrin today that maybe we should get a bicycle built for two. He didn’t go for that one lol. I think it would be cool. We could have matching performance wear, helmets and we can have headsets for chatting. And we can also use a Y adapter for my Dell DJ so we can both hear the same music while we ride. I think that would be awesome. This is what we would look like…
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Reorganizing Music Again
It wasn’t that long ago, like a week or 2 ago, that I had to download all the cd’s from my Dell DJ mp3 player to my computer then fix all the tags then put them back on my DJ but when I did that I didn’t count on the fact that their file names had something to do with anything. For example. If a song says 01 Politik instead of Coldplay – A Rush of Blood To The Head – 01 – Politik then when I go to make a playlist I’m not going to know who the artist is or even which CD that song is from.
Yes, I am really anal about things like that lol. I don’t know why, I just am. But it’s not for no reason. When I ride my bike sometimes there are songs that are way too loud or they don’t have any sound at all then I have to pull over in the dirt on the bike trail, pull the remote control out of the bike frame bag and push the next button. I don’t want to have to do that because it slows me down and brings my average speed time down too. It’s also annoying to be riding happily then all of a sudden a song blares into your ears and then they start to bleed lol. Or you don’t hear anything for a minute before realizing you aren’t going to but the song is playing. I don’t really understand how that song got put in there. Also there is 1 song that is in there twice from Uncle Kracker. I don’t know how that happened.
So, I’m downloading the music to my computer and I will reorganize the names and write down what is going into the playlist and look at each song with a microscope to make sure my ride is full of good music and not annoying music.
Actually, I’d also like to just add the popular songs from certain CD’s, the ones that made it to the radio, this way I can cut down on the amount of songs in my playlist which is typically between 550 and 600. It’s not going to be easy to weed through them all though, it will take hours, possibly days. Well, at least I have something to do lol.
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Mini Pump
When I got my Dell DJ battery, pump and bike frame bag in the mail on the same day I blogged about how none of them were the right size, the mini pump was the right size, it’s just that the gauge wasn’t working right.
Well, last night I was pumping some air into my tires and I was looking at the numbers on the gauge. I was thinking that the needle was going to up a lot, near the red but that wasn’t the case at all. The number 20 is like really close to where the needle starts and I only need to put in 20.7 psi and the needle was at the 20 mark. I thought I had to make the needle go near wh ere the red was lol. I guess I was wrong, way wrong and the pump does what it is supposed to do. Thank goodness.
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Dell DJ Tweak
As I’ve stated in my previous blogs, when I got my Dell DJ Battery it wouldn’t fit inside the case but it still plugs in and works fine. The only thing is, I have to stick it to the back of the DJ with a rubber band and the bottom isn’t on so I must have it in a neoprene camera case. I would’ve prefered if the DJ was in a case that has a clear plastic front like they make for iPods and iPhones that have elastic to put around your arm. This way I’d be able to change the song. I would just have to cut a hole for the scroll wheel that’s all. But this is fine.
I have a remote so I can pause, play, go to the previous song and the next, raise and lower volume and turn the radio on. If I want to change whats playing I have to take the DJ out of the camera case. Which is no problem. I have 5 cd’s queued up all the time and they are all newish and what I want to listen to while riding my bike.
Well, here are the pictures that I just took of the DJ with the battery on the outside laying next to its case. To see the full size of these pictures just click them.
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High Seat
When I came back from my ride the day before yesterday I raised my seat up a lot but I guess not enough because today I rode my bike and I was still in pain when I got home and I noticed that my leg was still bending as I was riding. Your leg is supposed to extend fully when it gets all the way down. If your seat is too low it can cause an injury to your back and/or legs.
Well, when I lowered my seat I lowered it all the way then I realized how to raise the handlebars but I never raised the seat again. Big mistake.
So anyway, this morning I thought it was high enough but it wasn’t and I came home from my ride in a little bit of pain in my legs. Not as much as before but I raised it even higher and got on it and it was perfect. My legs straighten completely. Hopefully tomorrow I can keep going past California Ave instead of turning right.
My goal is to get my muscles strong enough to where I can ride the bike for long periods of time but having my seat so low was counter productive to my progress. The longer I am able to ride the more calories I will burn and then I can just go back on with my life. When I was a kid, teen and young adult (in my 20’s) I was very active. Either running from bullies (junior high) or riding my bike to and from school, to and from work, to and from Hollywood via North Hollywood, to and from Simi valley via Canoga Park. Point is I was active and active means skinny. I never gained an ounce. I could eat and eat and eat and believe me, I was a hungry guy and I never gained any weight. So, hopefully, I can keep my eating habits but exercise it all off with the bike.
I also wanted to add that I am so excited to have my Dell DJ back. I went too long without it and I’m so excited that I got that battery for $10 + $7 shipping. I nearly bought the same battery from another retailer for $25 and another was selling the same thing for $50. I almost gave up until I went on eBay.
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PAIN
Ok. First off Darrin woke me up at 6am because the pain was too great in his stomach and he needed to go to the E.R. He told me he was having a heart attack. He wasn’t thank goodness. The doctor gave him some meds for his stomach pain and we were on our way. Ok that was Chips pain.
Now for my pain. When we came home from the hospital Darrin got ready for church and then left. I on the other hand geared up for what I thought was going to be a long bike ride but turned into a 20 minute bike ride, if that. I put my sunglasses onto my glasses then strapped on the helmet then put the ear buds in so I could listen to Gavin Degraw’s latest self titled CD in my Dell DJ so the ride would be at least tolerable.
I go down H street from 3rd and I’m nearing the Catholic church which is like 10th street or something, I remember seeing 11th street as I was passing the church but just before I started to get near it I could feel my upper front legs just tightening up from the stress I was putting on them from the ride. I don’t know, maybe I wasn’t in the right gear or something but my legs were in pain.
I had to push myself to get to California Ave though so I could say I tried. As soon as I got to California Avenue I sighed a big sigh of relief. Then I had to turn right and Eye street wasn’t too far then I could turn right and go back to 3rd st. Now keep in mind, I didn’t go very far.
I finally got home, took of that hot helmet and I swear to science that my legs were in so much pain I was walking like an old man in a retirement home using a walker. Flower was so happy to see me that she was jumping up on my back legs trying to show her love and trying to get me to pick her up but I could barely walk much less bend over to pick up a toy chihuahua.
I’m glad it’s over BUT… I gotta try again tomorrow. If I can get to California avenue and not be in so much pain then I can keep going, maybe to Truxton lol. The song I was on was just track 5 so you know that I wasn’t gone long lol. Maybe tomorrow I will get to track 6.
This is a cropped image from Google Maps of today’s short route hehe. It was 1.5 miles by the way.
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OMG! Look At My Fortune Cookie!
Ok, we went to China Town Buffet for lunch and as we were leaving in the car I opened my fortune cookie and this is what is said:
Is that crazy or what? In my previous blog I was so upset about my battery being 1mm too big, my bike case being too big and the pump gauge not working. Then I get this.
I found a solution to the Dell DJ. I strapped it to the back with a rubber band and have it plugged it, it’s charging now. I can keep the bottom piece off as long as I keep it from getting dirty so Darrin bought me a neoprene case at Target today. He also bought me a helmet. I really have no excuses for riding my bike now to get exercise. The helmet looks horrible though lol. It’s not that particular helmet, it’s helmets in general because my face is so round and it basically shows off just how round my face is. But, I have faith that in time my round face will turn a bit more oval and I won’t look as ridiculous. I will have to get me a new pair of sports sunglasses so hopefully that will even my face out lol.
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Very Disappointed With Things That Came in the Mail Today
Well, I finally got my packages today and I’m not happy at all. The battery came way earlier than it should have and I was ecstatic about that but it doesn’t fit. It’s too wide. I plugged it in and it turned the Dell DJ on instantly but since the battery was dead it said low battery and shut off.
The frame bag is way too big, that’s why I bought the cheaper one because I thought it was going to be smaller. It covers my drink holder, where will I put my bottle of water now? I could shove it over so it doesn’t cover my water cage I guess.
The pump doesn’t do what it is supposed to do. Sure it pumps the tire up but the gauge doesn’t show me how much pressure is in the tire. What is the point of having a pump with a pressure gauge if it doesn’t work?
I can live with the big frame bag, I can even live with a pump that doesn’t do it’s job (gauge). I just wanted a mini pump and that’s what I got with a bonus feature (that doesn’t work). But the Dell DJ battery, that one I cannot keep and deal with. That one has to go back and I’m back at square one. No music.
I was just thinking, if I plug the battery in but then strap it to the back of the Dell DJ with a rubber band then charge it, I wonder if it will still work. It will be a little bit bulky but at this point I really don’t care. I just want my DJ back.
I’m calming down now, trying to find a silver lining.
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My Weight
Wow! I just weighed myself and it’s not good. Of course most people would just not talk about it, they would pretend that it doesn’t matter or the problem doesn’t exist but I know the problem exists. I was doing Spark People a year ago (I started on October 1st 2007) but something happened in my life and I just couldn’t do it anymore. I gave up dieting altogether even though I had lost over 20lbs. I was so proud of myself and then I just quit.
I was eating the food but not exercising and I was in a plateau for over a month and just couldn’t take the torture of having to suffer eating such small portions and so many veggies. Although it wasn’t all that bad, the veggie portions were pretty big but it was still torture to eat good and not lose a single lb. But I wasn’t exercising either so that’s where I made a huge mistake. I didn’t step it up and help myself along the long road of losing weight.
My highest weight that I’ve ever been was 245 and I weighed myself just before I started this post and I was 243. I’m just 2lbs from being right back to where I was. I need this Dell DJ battery to come soon and the pump and bag. I need them to come so I have motivation to ride my bike to get exercise. I need the pump because it has a gauge built-in so I can see if I’m pumping the correct amount or not. Right now they don’t feel fully pumped but I’m afraid to put too much air in because it will pop if I do. If it doesn’t have enough it may pop from my weight. The frame bag is just a bonus to keep all the tools with me so I don’t have to carry them.
The Dell DJ battery is a crucial part of this whole journey. I refuse to ride the bike in silence. It will be too boring and I will not want to keep doing it day after day if I’m bored doing it. Of course I probably won’t have to do it day after day.
As of right now my leg muscles are still not ready for a 2 hour bike ride. It is ready for a 5 minute bike ride before I can’t walk anymore. What I will have to do is just ride for as long as I can going towards beach park where the bike trail is and when I get too sore then just stop, rest and head back home. Just keep doing that every day or every other day or whatever I need. I can’t push my muscles too far because the more sore my legs are the less likely I will want to do it. But I heard from a trainer that if your legs are sore, so what, keep doing it. You don’t want the muscles to heal fully, you want them to be sore because they won’t get used to it unless you keep doing it. Yeah they will be sore for a few days but once they get used to it they wont be painful. It will become old hat.
Let’s just hope that these items come to me soon, within a week at least. I don’t know how much more of this fat I can take. I can’t look at myself in the mirror anymore. I have BDD so bad from this that I don’t even want to leave the house because people are staring at me and judging me every day. I just want to be back to where I was when I was thin. Nobody even noticed me because I blended in with all the other skinny people. Fat people don’t blend in too well especially when their t-shirts are stretched out in the stomach area. Which reminds me, if this does work, if I lose a massive amount of weight by riding my bike, I’m gonna need a wardrobe change hehe.
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