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Monday, July 26, 2004

The day starts out well enough. I figure I'll get a step-up on the website, prepping it for the day's activities. When the dust settles all went pretty well, seems I'm getting more efficient with the webmastering. I then follow up that success with a dismal failure. The previous evening I completed my updates for the yesterday's road trip to Sandpoint, ID and planned to upload the updates from my laptop to the web server this morning.

Foolish me. My site has been having intermittent problems for a while now, my host Globat seems to be pretty inept (seriously thinking about looking for another host), so when I attempt to connect to their web server I get an error. I call them but of course they say everything was working fine which isn't true. I then check the site and find it exceedingly slow and sometimes it doesn't respond at all. Needless to say I'm pretty frustrated, thinking hateful thoughts about Globat and the general state of things. The only thing I can do now is blow off some steam on the gnarly mountain bike ride I have planned for the day.

From Sandpoint, ID the bike trail is a close 4 miles away to the South. The tail-end of the drive takes me through a scenic, winding road.

I arrive soon thereafter at the trailhead and park the van. God it's a hot day. I have waited too long, it is now 4:30pm and probably the peak time of the day for temperature, oh well.