Pete's Log: more bike woes and the bathroom protocol

Entry #471, (Life in General)
(posted when I was 22 years old.)

Argh. On the way back home last night, it seems my patch gave out. It really doesn't surprise me, since I was amazed that it held in the first place. The instructions in the patch kit were in german, which means it was at least 7 years old, but probably closer to 9... and it's a patch kit designed for road bikes. Mine is one of them mountain bikes. But the patch did at least meet its one real requirement: it allowed me to get to and from campus on friday. Woohoo.

Well, I needed a break from my forth reading, so I decided I needed to do some coding. So I figure I'll do project 3 for OS (which isn't due until october 23). The problem: design a shared memory bathroom which uses semaphores to keep out people not currently allowed in. Time spent: under two hours. I still need to try a few more stress tests, but I think it works. So now I've done one productive thing for school, which I think is my limit for saturdays.

So we went to meijer yesterday evening. in addition to the lasers, I also bought yet another new inner tube, a new patch kit, and chain lube. So the plan for this afternoon is to do more bike work. Hopefully this trend will quit soon. Then tonight I think will witness the wonders of saturday night tv, along with beer and possibly taco bell. Unless I hear of anything better going on.