The Retirement Thread

[GM]

Sod's law says the bins won't be collected till 12. 00.......do let us know
Ours are getting later by the week (2 weeks to be precise).

Ours are pretty punctual, no later than 8o/c in all weather's, bless them!

 

[Tenkaykev]

On the subject of wearing a tracker watch in bed. I did this out of interest when I first got mine. Problem I have is if I wear a watch at night it tends to wake me up or keep me awake.

Do @Mo1959 and @Tenkaykev not find them uncomfortable?

Like Mo, I wear mine 24/7. My model is a couple of years old now, it's the 245M, you can load podcasts / music on to it and listen without needing to carry your phone ( I don't do this, the "M" version happened to be of offer at the time, the 245 without music would have suited me.)
As well as being a fitness tracker it's also capable of loads of other stuff. For example you can load a "GPX" file to the watch and have it follow the directions. I tested it by loading a run that Mrs Tenkaykev had done. I then set off from the house and the watch would vibrate and the screen would pop up a message saying " Turn left into York Road in 25 metres" for example, and then vibrate to confirm you were following the route correctly. It's also very handy if you are somewhere unfamiliar as you can mark a location and then go wandering around. If you get a bit lost you select " take me home" and it will ask if you want directions " as the crow flies" or do you want to retrace your exact steps. If you select " as the crow flies" it will put a big arrow on the screen and the remaining distance. There's loads more stuff to dig into if that is your thing, but it works really well as a fitness / sleep tracker if that is all you want. You have the choice of digital / analogue watch faces, and you can choose what data is displayed on screen, I just have my current Heart rate, date, steps, and % battery remaining.

 

[classic33]

Helicopter, and no sign of any activity round it . Maybe some one sitting inside guarding it .

Gazelle, note the location of the exhaust and the built in tail rotor.

 

[ColinJ]

I am awake unusually early for me. I still feel tired and was about to snooze the alarm when my backup alarm went off. Oh yes, blood test at clinic!

I will be testing my Covid-19 jab hypothesis, which is that the jabs mess up my numbers for a few days. Normally very consistent, but up by 50% shortly after both jabs.

First time I was back to normal 2 weeks after the jab. This is 2 weeks after the second jab.

I will report back later!

 

[Mo1959]

Forgot to buy coffee when I was round earlier so wandered back for that and got some more Fruit and Fibre since I had a coupon for money off. Bought a protein bar to have with my coffee now then I must get stuck into some housework

 

[Tenkaykev]

Just wandered around to the local Screwfix to collect my order. The unit next door had loads of Harley Davidson motorcycles outside, and the inside was packed with them too. Can't say I've noticed them previously so perhaps it's a new business.

 

[Juan Kog]

Nope..........it's just a big watch. I wear mine 24/7 and it has great battery life depending on how often I use the gps to actually record runs and walks. Must get around a week even recording a couple of runs. Love it. Continuous heart rate recording too which is great for noticing if your resting rate has gone up and maybe needing to rest up, etc.

It's the Fenix I have which is really quite chunky but it doesn't bother me at all.

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Mo another excuse to show those Firm Strong hands .
I’m puzzled you’re post is timed at 08.58 and you’re watch shows 08.59 ? You’re high tech device can’t be set to the wrong time 😱.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

What a faff that was, Hospital appointment for my Good Lady this morning, routine check up, with her mobility problems she can't get in the car so it was a bus job, over an hour later, 2 buses and £6 lighter in the pocket, the appointment was too early for our passes, we arrived with a minute to spare. Not being familiar with Coventry's buses, we rarely use them, I didn't pick the best route out, we took the 3 to the Bus interchange at the Arena Shopping Park then the Hospital bus from there and saw parts of Coventry I haven't seen before. The appointment was done in a quarter of an hour, we stopped for a cuppa at the Hospital cafe then we were on our way back, this time we took the 9 going through the city centre, hopped of in Far Gosford street and got the bus home from there, far easier. Since we got back one of our neighbors has given us the number for hospital transport so I'll investigate that for next time, I suspect she won't qualify but its worth looking into.

 

[numbnuts]

I'm bored (and no I don't need you to entertain me) and frustrated, still have not received the money from the car, which should have been in my account on the 28th May and now been told on “live-chat” (the only way I can talk to them) "can you wait until next week".
The bored part is until I can get everything sorted I can't be arsed to do anything.

 

[BoldonLad]

What a faff that was, Hospital appointment for my Good Lady this morning, routine check up, with her mobility problems she can't get in the car so it was a bus job, over an hour later, 2 buses and £6 lighter in the pocket, the appointment was too early for our passes, we arrived with a minute to spare. Not being familiar with Coventry's buses, we rarely use them, I didn't pick the best route out, we took the 3 to the Bus interchange at the Arena Shopping Park then the Hospital bus from there and saw parts of Coventry I haven't seen before. The appointment was done in a quarter of an hour, we stopped for a cuppa at the Hospital cafe then we were on our way back, this time we took the 9 going through the city centre, hopped of in Far Gosford street and got the bus home from there, far easier. Since we got back one of our neighbors has given us the number for hospital transport so I'll investigate that for next time, I suspect she won't qualify but its worth looking into.

Don't you have a bus pass?, or, are you too young for that?

 

[ColinJ]

My blood test results were 20% of the way back to normal this time rather than the 100% last time. I suspect that I will be getting a call from the clinic in a few hours time to discuss changing my dosage. TBH, I wouldn't mind making a subtle reduction in it. What I DON'T want is for them to overdo a reduction because inevitably I would end up UNDER-dosing and then they would have to increase the dose again.

I had this a couple of years ago when they had problems with the testing strips. They were getting inaccurate readings for some time until somebody eventually spotted that thousands of people round the country had mysteriously started getting test results three to four times higher than normal! I was having my dose changed every few weeks and had to be tested again every time. It was a right pain. Literally, actually, because while the test strips were being recalled and replaced they had to revert to the old-fashioned way - a needle in the arm.

My guess is that they will ask me to stop taking the extra mg that I take on Saturdays and Sundays.

Since we got back one of our neighbors has given us the number for hospital transport so I'll investigate that for next time, I suspect she won't qualify but its worth looking into.

I used the service up here a couple of times when I was having to go to Halifax hospital while still very weak after my clotting problems. It was very convenient being picked up and dropped off at the doorstep. What was less appealing was spending over an hour extra each way touring different areas picking up/dropping off other patients.

As for 'qualifying'... I just told them that there was nobody to give me a lift, I couldn't afford a taxi each way, and I was too ill to be messing about getting 2 buses each way AND I wasn't capable of walking to and from the bus stops anyway.

Did you have to pay bus fares because you were travelling too early to use OAP bus passes?

 

[BoldonLad]

Mo another excuse to show those Firm Strong hands .
I’m puzzled you’re post is timed at 08.58 and you’re watch shows 08.59 ? You’re high tech device can’t be set to the wrong time 😱.

This reminds me of a friend of mine, now, sadly, no longer with us.

One evening, sitting with several others, drinking in our local pub, we got to discussing watches. Everyone, except my pal, had a "cheap" watch, my pal had a Rolex. We then compared times on each watch, all of the cheapos had exactly the same (correct) time, the Rolex was two minutes slow. It made us (cheapo watch wearers) feel so smug!

 

[ColinJ]

This reminds me of a friend of mine, now, sadly, no longer with us.

One evening, sitting with several others, drinking in our local pub, we got to discussing watches. Everyone, except my pal, had a "cheap" watch, my pal had a Rolex. We then compared times on each watch, all of the cheapos had exactly the same (correct) time, the Rolex was two minutes slow. It made us (cheapo watch wearers) feel so smug!

I don't think Rolex owners buy their watches to tell them the time... More a case of "Hey, look at me - I can afford a Rolex!!!"

 

[ColinJ]

More a case of "Hey, look at me - I can afford a Rolex!!!"

In certain areas, that would be... "Hey, look at me - please beat me up and steal my Rolex!!!"

 

[Dave7]

Ideas wanted to prevent numbnuts getting bored.
1. Collect and weigh the fluff in his belly button.
2. Pick all the black bits out of his toe nails.
3. Learning to fart while setting them alight.
4. Rip open several tea bags and count the individual bits to see if they are exactly the same.

Others suggestions welcome.