While I await the green light to bring Agamemnon home; I did receive a call at 6 AM today with an update that was optimistic, he thanks you all in his odd way; I want to explain the weird “blob” for May.
Lately, I have been recording my bike rides with a GoPro setup I have. It’s kind of dorky, this headset thing I put on the helmet but it does provide a solid POV. To what end? To share with others who may be exercising on an indoor bike and I’m hoping to exchange them for different scenery. I did test it out on my iPad while using my timeshare’s gym, not bad, it did prevent some boredom even if I was “in motion” while in real life I had to wait at an intersection.
So for my first full day of vacation (do Saturdays off count?), I utilized the bike rack to take my gear down to Hyde Park, where I used to live from 1994 to 1997. I figured it would be some more interesting visuals of what Austin looks like for those who can afford the ridiculous housing prices resembling neighborhoods I grew up in until 1982.
I rode around the old apartment building, a couple nearby streets, then north to the end of UT’s intramural fields and turned around to go by UT. The UT area has solid, dedicated bike lanes! I kept pushing on through to downtown since my goal was over 30 minutes of footage and to close the green ring on my Activity Watch app. I was doing alright by the time I passed the old, downtown public library but my dehydration caught up with me and I spilled over. Therefore what the Header is is a close up of the sidewalk as the GoPro followed my fall, the headband-thing popped off the helmet and POW! the glass cover on the GoPro received a lovely spiderweb crack! What you see is the GoPro taking a close-up of the concrete. Being a GoPro in 4K, I suppose it’s extreme! To me it was a pisser. I was going to take the gear to Vegas and see what I could shoot; it was a bust anyway, the Fremont Zipline people make you rent their gear.
Before I flew out, I did take the GoPro to Precision Camera to see if it could be repaired. They thought it was only the glass cover over the lens. Parts and labor, about $100. No dice in the end. They called me while I was in Vegas to say they’re not allowed to repair it yet the guy I spoke to later said if the footage after the crack was fine, the only negative I might experience would be light refraction in a certain region of what it shoots. I can live with it as I do with my current iPad being cracked. I just don’t think the warranty covers such clumsiness.