Broken Chain(s)

OK, so it seems my short lived ability to maintain my own bike has come to an end. Yesterday I got about 10m away from my work when the chain snapped due to my poor maintenance at the weekend. No problem though, after walking half way home and getting Rosie to pick me up, I set about fitting the new chain that had arrived in the post.

Managed to bend one of the links trying to fit that. Then this morning, it broke on the way to work. To make matters worse, the back brakes keep getting jammed as well, so this time, I'm taking it to a bike shop to get properly repaired by someone who knows what they are doing.

Computer Woes

Well, my desktop at home is totally stuffed, Windows won't boot, last known good configuration doesn't work and not even safe mode boots. To make matters worse, when I had a look in the crap that came with it to try and find out how the recovery partition works, it says I should run the system restore program (click on Start->Programs... Doh!). It's ok though, you can recover from DVD as well, I just need to insert the DVD I burned with the System restore DVD creator ... oh wait I didn't burn any DVDs. So that's all a bit shit.