It was one of THOSE days last Tuesday.
The New Year brought us new gadgets and inspiration to get the old gadgets up to speed. So we found someone who actually knew what he was doing in the audio/video field to fix what many others had mucked up, and get the new stuff set up correctly.
And along with all that came a new learning curve for us me. I now know enough to write things down and try them out before I let the electronics wizard out the door.
And while I didn’t do any of the setting up I was answering lots of questions, testing things out and running up and down stairs. Considering what happened later with the bike trainer I should have considered THAT my work out.
The next hurdle in the elctronics adventure will be to get Paul on board since everything now operates differently. Normally I would not think this would be a problem but since he claims Amazon is not user friendly ( WHAT??) I have some concerns.
So this evening with about 95% of my brain used up on new electronics I decided to go for my first indoor bike trainer ride since last year.
And I couldn’t JUST go ride the bike ..NOOO I had to go get my Garmin watch to track my miles and speed.
From there it went like this:
- Remember that I needed to put in replacement parts on my bike so my Garmin birth control would sync with my bike
- Find replacement parts
- Find iPad so I could follow you tube video on how to do it
- First video has no sound, find second video
- Go get flashlight that actually works
- Go get scissors
- Go find glasses
- Watch video, rewind, go get towel to clean off spot on bike to replace sensor that I lost
- Fool around and ruin 2 out of the 3 zip ties that came with replacement kit
- Finally get it working
- Lose glasses
- Find glasses
- Get water
- Change clothes
- Go get shoes
- Fiddle with TV so I have something to watch
- Get on bike, need glasses
- Get off bike, get glasses ..fool with Garmin Watch
- Get on bike, get off bike to find TV control
- Get on bike..room is too hot
- Get off bike turn on fans
- Get on bike and actually start cycling and realize I didn’t cut off zip ties and they are rubbing bike frame
- Off bike,find scissors, cut zip ties, adjust bike on trainer
- Ride bike for 10 minutes and realize I never started watch which if you recall STARTED this whole fiasco
- Start watch and cycle for 3 miles
At one point I was about to throw in the towel and just give up but I perservered. And now I need to find my second wind because I can’t find the paper that I wrote down the instructions on how to turn the TV off. Its either going to be a long night or a noisy one.
