02/09/2007 - Sunday

Wakoopa

It has been 14 hours since I did the weekly restart and the highest process id is now 3404 and has been that all day. Before the Wakoopa update it would have been around 60,000 by now (the 30k number before was because I did the update a while after restarting). I'm happy that I managed to find what was causing the high numbers!

TV

Not Going Out returns for a second series this Friday. Kate is no longer in the show, but has been replaced with Tim's sister. Hopefully it'll be just as funny as the first series, if not more funnier! After You've Gone also returns for a second series this friday (it's on before Not Going Out). I haven't read much about the new series, so I don't know if anyone new features. I used to turn my TV off pretty early on Friday evenings but not any longer!

Exercise

At Christmas I was bought an exercise set which contained a step machine. This was fine for eight months (with around one month of nearly every day use) until it decided to break. The plastic wheel that holds the cable in place and allows the step arms to move had bent which also caused a metal bracket to twist:



I emailed the customer support people and they sent out replacement parts for me to install. I was expecting to just get a new bracket and wheel, but they also sent a new cable and the main bracket that holds the wheel (the thicker one that the wheel is inside). I was expecting to receive them on Monday (it was sent Thursday evening) but they arrived on Saturday (hence why I know what they sent). I installed them (after finding another spanner to turn both nuts) and gave it a little try to see how it felt and it seemed fine. I haven't given it a proper try yet as I do different exercise on the weekends, so the first try will be tomorrow morning. Hopefully it'll all be fine and nothing else will go wrong with it!