OK, so this is a week old. I discovered my method of authenticating whether a person could post to this was a bit, uh, strict, and I've been too lazy ever since to fix it. Well I have some time today, so I sorted it out. Here is my tale from last week.

Friday I went for an interesting bike ride. I needed an AC adapter for my FireWire hard drive so I could rescue more recent versions of my financial documents and plan out my budget for the next year. So, I figured I'd take a ride to Fry's Electronics. Just out of curiosity, I stopped by a Ford dealership to look at the new Focii. They had a few on sale for $8650, which is less than a used one usually sells for. The salesman there must have been having a hard time selling cars -- he offered to let me test drive it, even after I told him I don't have my license yet.

Later on, at a different Ford dealership on the same bike ride, three separate salesmen told me they'd take a trade in on my bike. One told me he had actually seen it done at another dealership.

I went for another bike ride on Saturday up the coast to Carlsbad, stopping for a carne asada burrito. On the way back, I was stunned to be passed going up a huge hill by a roller blader. Unfathomable! The grand total for the trip was 46.3 miles, averaging 10 MPH (not including the burrito-break).

On the technology side, I upgraded my web server to Apache 2, and figured out how to use the Tomcat WebApp connector to make the inclusion of the weblog a bit less hack-ish. You probably won't notice, but it's a little faster.