Mundane News

[tyred]

Still pouring rain. At least I shouldn't get flooded on the second floor.

 

[raleighnut]

This morning, I got bike out for the morning commute, and was wheeling it along my path when I noticed the back light wasn't working.

"Oh, dearie me" I said, or something like that anyway.

From experience hub dynamo systems work great, to the extent you forget they are there, up until the moment they don't, whereupon they are a right pain in the Saddle Interface Zone.

There are so many points in the system where things can go wrong completely at random.

Also, if I understood electricity I wouldn't have become a carpenter.

So I grabbed the backup bike ("Why do you have at least two bikes at any given moment?" people ask, well now you know...) and bombed off to work.

On my return I rather half-heartedly started pulling plugs out of the back light to see if I could find anything, scraping the dirt off them, crimping the contacts and and putting them back. Turned front wheel.

Not a sausage.

Looked at front, repeated the procedure. Turned wheel.

Burst of red shines on living room wall light like a rather low budget disco. Nearly drop bike in shock.

Roll bike back to parking space, light is still working.

Will keep checking it though, as I don't trust electronic things not to up and die on me if I don't keep an eye on them...

Back lights normally pick up their power from a terminal on the front lamp.

 

[Reynard]

Lovely supper tonight...

Two fried eggs, parmentier potatoes, baked beans and kale with crispy bacon.

Poppy likes parmentier potatoes - I caught her stealing the crispy bits from the roasting tin.

 

[Jenkins]

This time I remembered to put the 'out of office'reply on my personal email address at work, rather than the team's inbox.

 

[Jenkins]

It's not raining here yet, but the wind is certainly picking up.

 

[Reynard]

It's not raining here yet, but the wind is certainly picking up.

It's a tad blowy here too...

 

[Jenkins]

Right, time for something that resembles the taste of fermented apples as there's no hurry to get up tomorrow 🍺.

 

[Mo1959]

Lovely supper tonight...

Two fried eggs, parmentier potatoes, baked beans and kale with crispy bacon.

Poppy likes parmentier potatoes - I caught her stealing the crispy bits from the roasting tin.

Molly likes peas! I dropped one on the floor a while ago when I was eating and she gobbled it up, so now has to get a few if I’m having them.

 

[classic33]

Still pouring rain. At least I shouldn't get flooded on the second floor.

If it gets that high, make sure your bikes stay dry.

 

[Reynard]

Molly likes peas! I dropped one on the floor a while ago when I was eating and she gobbled it up, so now has to get a few if I’m having them.

LOL!

Lexi likes milk, and if I don't give her a dribble in a saucer at lunchtime, she helps herself straight from the jug...

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

It may be Norton playing up with Kaspersky? We've tried removing Norton but it pops up from time to time .
Is Norton the computer equivalent of Japanese Knot Weed ?

Sorry - many days behind

but been an IT Tech for many years
bin Norton
not worth it
antivirus etc - the more it is advertised the worse it is
I use free version (Avast at the moment) - if I needed something more robust I would pay a bit for it

last time I got conned into using Norton it used up half my processor for no good reason

installed a free thing which found several viruses that Norton - in spite of costing real money - had missed!!!
YMMV

 

[RoubaixCube]

Lockdown is doing a bit of a number down my neck of the woods

 

[Gravity Aided]

Sorry - many days behind

but been an IT Tech for many years
bin Norton
not worth it
antivirus etc - the more it is advertised the worse it is
I use free version (Avast at the moment) - if I needed something more robust I would pay a bit for it

last time I got conned into using Norton it used up half my processor for no good reason

installed a free thing which found several viruses that Norton - in spite of costing real money - had missed!!!
YMMV

Love Avast myself, highly recommend.

 

[Reynard]

My sinuses are giving me gyp tonight. So two paracetamol and off to bed for me.

 

[Magpies]

Tropical dawn from my window in Singapore - it's dark, and then in a flash, light. A welcome change from gloomy East Anglian mornings over the past few weeks. Unaccustomed earth.