Mundane News

[tom73]

How are they going to increase the number of hospital beds ?
Simple! They are going to bring in new vending machine type beds !
A nurse or doctor wishing to examine a patient will simply press a button until the right patient on the bed carousel comes into view !

Wish it was that clever what we are getting is plain smoke and mirrors with a dash of reinventing the wheel. With some extra targets thrown in for extra mud slinging.

 

[fossyant]

wow, happy for you! must be the season for suspension knuckles. I also need one. but I've been advised to just keep replacing the tire at that corner

It had done 140k on the curb (near side), which is usually the worst place for wear due to potholes. Nothing needed, although when I picked the car up, he said, just as I finished testing and moved the car, the airbag light came on. He cleared it and it came back on again.

I said, I know what it is, it will be the driver's seat connector. Got home, opened the back of the chair up (zips), unclipped the connector, squirted in contact cleaner, closed it back up, started car, scanned it with my Autel Maxi Link, no errors, so cleared code and it's gone. Does it about once or twice a year in winter, as my car stands unused for many days at a time and things 'get damp'.

 

[fossyant]

Currently sat hovering for a Teams call. We've got a meeting with partners, but it's at their site near the Etihad. I'd have cycled out there, but they sprung it on me at the last minute, and I needed to give them some projections, which didn't leave me time to get in my 'gear' cycle out there and get changed in time for the meeting (I'd have been covered in mud and car was having a MOT). The meeting started at 12:30, but I've got to be 'on call' for when ever they need me. Darn it, a lunch time spin on the bike is probably off the cards - I was only going for a 40 minute ride to test the cleat positioning on some winter road boots.

 

[tyred]

I was checking the availability of a book I'm interested in on a book seller's website and it is in stock.

They are also suggesting an autobiography by someone called Harry.

 

[Reynard]

A bright and breezy day here chez Casa Reynard. It's not cold in the sun / where it's sheltered, but the brisk north westerly is making it feel decidedly chilly.

Slept OK-ish, but have stiffened up horribly after six and a half hours behind the wheel yesterday, plus a brisk hour's walk in quite hilly terrain. Am also feeling rather flat emotionally. I always do, after visiting Paul's grave.

I have had a quiet morning doing some work on my archive. There's a load of stuff that needs scanning / filing / sorting / printing, and want to make a good dent in the backlog as I have some new stuff coming in. It's funny how you can go ages without finding anything, and then it's all like those London buses...

Madam Lexi left me a present overnight - a disembowelled mouse. I suspect I might have brought it in with a case of firewood, but either way, I think I can stand down on setting a trap.

Anyways, it is almost time for luncheon and I has a hungry.

 

[Speicher]

How are they going to increase the number of hospital beds ?
Simple! They are going to bring in new vending machine type beds !
A nurse or doctor wishing to examine a patient will simply press a button until the right patient on the bed carousel comes into view !

Just widen all the corridors? Build a car park for the ambulances? Of course, also provide a small food "stall" for the Ambulance Technicians and Paramedics to get a hot drink and provide somewhere for them sit down for their meal break

 

[Speicher]

I was checking the availability of a book I'm interested in on a book seller's website and it is in stock.

They are also suggesting an autobiography by someone called Harry.

Harry Secombe?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I was checking the availability of a book I'm interested in on a book seller's website and it is in stock.

They are also suggesting an autobiography by someone called Harry.

Copies going spare?

 

[rockyroller]

warmest day of the week, today. so a bike after work please

gym at lunchtime too

big load of laundry tonite

 

[tyred]

Harry Secombe?

I'm not sure but apparently he doesn't like publicity.

 

[tyred]

Copies going spare?

I suppose people need something to put under a dodgy table leg.

 

[tom73]

Just widen all the corridors? Build a car park for the ambulances? Of course, also provide a small food "stall" for the Ambulance Technicians and Paramedics to get a hot drink and provide somewhere for them sit down for their meal break

Food stall not a bad idea be cheeper than what they do now. Won't go down well with abmos though they'd not get the £25 lost break payments.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

There's a yellow comet in sky and it heading towards us...

 

[fossyant]

Said Teams call never happened, got an email after an hour to say not necessary as what I provided was what they needed. So, upped and offed for a quick 10 miles on the road bike, testing out the winter boots. All good, except a puncture less than a mile from home. Changed the tube, and off I went. A tiny little hole in the side wall - will check the tyre again later - couldn't find anything. Repairing tube at home, and the kit I take out with me on the road bike has useless glue, despite not being opened, it's gone solid.

 

[Reynard]

Lovely luncheon of a ham & mustard sandwich on wholemeal bread, a pear, a clementine and two

Got the fire going early as the parental didn't light it yesterday, and the house is now decidedly chilly. Re-stocked all the wood bins in the house too. And printed a whole load of stuff out. Now I need to go and file it...