Mundane News

[rockyroller]

The exam board I was chairing finished early so I took the opportunity for a lunch out and took the Vitus 797 I've currently got on eBay since I'd never actually ridden it further than the end of my road.

My conclusion? It rides beautifully on smooth surfaces but once the road surface goes a little potholey then the vibrations transfer through more than my 653-framed pink Raleigh. And the road surfaces in Wakefield/Kirklees are more than a little potholey.

good thing you're getting rid of it, eh?

 

[rockyroller]

Hot cordial drink went down well.

like w/ alcohol?

 

[Illaveago]

I hope those two astronauts haven't left their cars in a car park. 8 day ticket should be fine!

 

[rockyroller]

"only" an hour overtime last night so finished at 12.30 am rather than the 2 hours i was expecting although i am expecting it the rest of the week so looks like it will be a car week as i dont like riding home at 1.30 am and have to get up to do the school run .

oh man I have memories of overtime. for a stretch in the mid-late 1980s I would regularly do 4 hrs of OT every night! meaning, instead of getting out at midnight, I got out at 4am. it was brutal, but the $$ added up!

eventually they put me in charge & we added a 3rd shift. it was sweet to work normal hours, except when the 3rd shift called w/ problems to solve ...

 

[biggs682]

like w/ alcohol?

Afraid not

must be on to #2 by now, eh?

Yes number 2 has been and gone

 

[biggs682]

Lunchtime stroll completed sunny but chilly in the breeze

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It’s nice out, sunshine again and temps looking up

 

[PeteXXX]

Garden has been gardened.. 🌿
Snooze has been snoozed 💤 👌
More garden is about to be gardened 🌿

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Now I'm confused. Cycle Chat has been down for a while here but, now it's back up, I see people have been posting throughout our down time.

I appear to be back! The above message was written when I was out and about, so it was over the mobile network which was working normally. Back home, I got locked out again. I appear to have got caught in some weird internet half-world, where I was logged into CC according to my laptop but not logged in according to CC. No idea what happened, really no idea. But a bit of router flummery, a dose of cache clearing followed by a full reboot and I was allowed to log back in.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Oh, the magpies were around doing a spot of twig twiddling this morning but flew off around 8am. I hope they know what they're doing because I have no idea.

 

[VinSumRox]

Nice walk up the hill behind the house.

 

[PeteXXX]

Dog has been walked 🐶
Pizza is about to be bunged in the oven 🍳

 

[postman]

This might be too exciting for mundane news.But today i climbed a ladder.About ten foot of our downspout is metal the rest is plastic.So due to my cancer scare then the vertigo fiasco,it was in a sorry state.the putty in three of the joints/knuckles all split some fell out and the paint cracked and fading.So i thought give it a go.Lo and behold,i have had a good time.Wire brush the flaky bits sandpaper all over bit of scraping with a knife and finally putty replaced.So tomorrow i am hoping to undercoat with grey oil based undercoat.jobs a good un,sadly my fingers are freezing ,that might be the peripheral neuropathy.But i did it and i am very happy.

 

[gbb]

Yesterday we were at Stamford Hospital for my wife's MRI scan. It took quite a while and we popped into the cafe there for something to eat...
I had beef goulash soup and a bread roll.
Ooof, it was really really nice 😀

 

[Illaveago]

Our grass was getting a bit long so I took Patrick for a walk around the garden.