Mundane News

[Gravity Aided]

Rode the Raleigh tourer to town, just to see if there was anything going on. Just a beautiful autumn day.

 

[Reynard]

Go for the built-in optical drive. You don't want to drag along another box and PSU when you go on holiday.......and you probably don't need a faster processor anyway.
Resist the terrible "I must upgrade" bollocks.

Umm, what are these holidays of which you speak? My current laptop has an optical drive - I do use it, but not a great deal anymore, because a USB stick is a much easier way to transfer and share files. I might watch the odd DVD, but that's about it, so losing it would not be a big thing.

I should say, this laptop is 15 years old (Windows Vista, 1Gb RAM, Centrino Duo processor) and really struggles with internet stuff now. The problems I've been having started around the date Win 11 was released, and I think it's no coincidence. But there's nothing wrong with this machine otherwise as far as I can tell, so I'll still carry on using it for things I don't need the internet for.

FYI, the T430 dates from 2012, the T460 from 2016. So the later machine is still no spring chicken. The ones I'm looking at both have 8Gb RAM and a 256 Gb SSD, but it's just which would future-proof me better...

 

[Kempstonian]

Aren't Arsenal a nice team, to give all the others a nine point start?

After the third game, how many people would have put money on them being within three points of Man City after ten games? I wouldn't have!

 

[Reynard]

Aren't Arsenal a nice team, to give all the others a nine point start?

After the third game, how many people would have put money on them being within three points of Man City after ten games? I wouldn't have!

All of a sudden, it's just clicked... Still get the wibbles though, because you just *expect* something to go horribly pear-shaped.

 

[Reynard]

Anyways, I has a tired.

Nunnight one and all xxx

 

[Kempstonian]

All of a sudden, it's just clicked... Still get the wibbles though, because you just *expect* something to go horribly pear-shaped.

Well it clicked because for those three matches Arteta didn't have his first team players all fit and able to play. Now he does. Also nobody considers those matches in detail. The first was against a newly promoted Brentford who did what newly promoted sides often do - attack and really go for a result. It worked, and they have continued to give other top sides some trouble. Then the next two matches were against Man City and Chelsea. The pundits wouldn't have given Arsenal a chance against either of them, so the losses were really no surprise (especially with a weakened team).

 

[DCLane]

Up at 4am to drive to today's national hillclimb. Son no. 2's taking a few months off racing after this to focus on his A-levels: I won't miss the early starts.

 

[biggs682]

Not up early enough to get out before the rain so will go and do some spannering in the garage.

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
It doesn't look any lighter this morning despite the extra hour! Could be due to the nasty weather outside !

 

[DCLane]

It's wet at Winnat's Pass. Very wet. And windy. Only the brave, or stupid, would race uphill here this morning Hillclimbers are a strange bunch, and the national hillclimb brings out the oddest.

Despite the weather there are about 300 going up. Plus photographers, spectators, etc. Should be interesting. As I'm not entered this year I'm only riding to the start.

 

[Illaveago]

I had around 24 hours of sore muscles in the upper arm (but lower down than the actual injection site) and a poor night because it was the shoulder that I normally sleep on. If it's similar, it eases after a day and then only hurts when you poke it. Which, when you think about it, you really don't need to do. Because if you need to poke yourself to know if it hurts that's only because it doesn't.

Yes! Similar here. My arm hurts on the opposite side to my bicep.

 

[cookiemonster]

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What's the gossip?

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm up.
It's bed changing day.

These have to be done in the correct order.

 

[Illaveago]

S*ds Law! Most of the time things for sale remain on book of faces way beyond the date they were sold ! Just when I wanted to get a picture of something the advert has been removed !

 

[biggs682]

Well back indoors now
First cuppa drank
Raining here