Everything is in working order and I’m back online to take and fill orders! Things took a little longer than I was expecting, or hoping for, but all is well now. The power supply has been fixed and got it installed (obviously).
The site won’t actually be down, but my computer will be as of Friday October 12th. I had some power supply issues and am sending in my old one today to be fixed/replaced depending upon what PC Power and Cooling decides to do. Right now I’m using a backup one that I bought from Circuit City, but will be returning that one next Friday. Your orders won’t be forgotten, and they will be answered! I can’t even garuntee any sort of downtime, so this is just a precautionary warning.
Well the goal was always to make it to St. Louis for the Pirate Fest… but of course going by way of bicycle wasn’t always the most amazing of choices. Although the goal was physical, the trip was never about the physical destination. Anyways, I made it about one hundred miles outside of Kansas City and started running into troubles. I got a flat tire, which was okay, I came prepared with a spare inner tube. After fixing that flat I headed out and went another 10 miles or so before camping out. When I woke up in the morning my OTHER tire was flat… only had one inner tube so I was now in need of using my patch kit… which made me camp out at that site for another day since the patches require several hours to dry. I was never able to patch it completely since they require a “clean and dry” place to be patched, well… if you haven’t noticed neither of those conditions exist with one another in nature. So I decided to head back. I made it about another 20 miles coming back before airing the tire up constantly pulled the valve stem away from the inner tube… so now it was walking time. I walked about another 20-30 miles before camping once again outside of a Jahovah’s Witness church (didn’t know it at the time I was out there in the dark). In the morning I was out of water and went over to the church to fill up hoping to just kind of get what I needed and sneak off. They started to show up for their Sunday morning meeting and asked me to come in… I used the excuse that I had to get going had a long way to travel, and one of them offered to take me home if I stayed for the meeting… to that I happily agreed! So that’s how the trip stands.
I actually returned as of Sunday… but you can go to my personal site at codysortore.com to read all about it and see a few pictures from the trip. It was an amazing time and I’m ready to get back to work for you guys!