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[Reynard]

I checked the tuning on the two guitars that don’t get played often and played them. I still prefer the cheapie sparkly one over the proper grown-up APX

Yebbut we girls do need a bit of sparkly stuff in our lives...

 

[Hebe]

The girl has an adorable 3/4 size acoustic that is eye-ball searingly glittery

 

[Andy in Germany]

You'll be carrying them there as a passenger on your bike?

No, mainly because part of the goal is teaching her a strategy to travel on the train so she can travel locally independently; at the moment she's dependent on relatives giving her a lift so she's effectively trapped in the village. As with all clients the goal is to help her live as independently as possible.

We are visiting two workshops on two separate days; I'll be taking pictures on the first trip and make those into an instruction sheet for the second, and she'll guide me on the second trip using the instructions.

Ironically this means I have to cycle to work, catch the train past my apartment and back, then cycle back to my apartment.

Even more ironically, one of the workshops is my former employer...

 

[classic33]

No, mainly because part of the goal is teaching her a strategy to travel independently on the train so she can travel locally independently; at the moment she's dependent on relatives giving her a lift so she's effectively trapped in the village. As with all clients the goal is to help her live as independently as possible.

We are visiting two workshops on two separate days; I'll be taking pictures on the first trip and make those into an instruction sheet for the second, and she'll guide me on the second trip using the instructions.

Ironically this means I have to cycle to work, catch the train past my apartment and back, then cycle back to my apartment.

Even more ironically, one of the workshops is my former employer...

Cycling is out then?
Said you were like an area manager I knew.

Would just a visual trip diary work. Gets past any language barriers in its favour.

Just remember, it's service numbers you should take note of, not locomotive numbers.

Best o'luck with the old place.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

And the wind whispers, "Mary.

 

[Reynard]

The girl has an adorable 3/4 size acoustic that is eye-ball searingly glittery

That definitely trumps my pink sparkly Hello Kitty crocs...

 

[Jenkins]

'Intersting' online presentation at work this morning of the updated introductory & training course for new post Brexit checks that will need to be done by ports around the UK - the sort of stuff I've been doing for years, but will be new to most.

The central part of the package was a video they unearthed that was made in 2006(!) for training before the work was transferred from one department to another. Unfortunately they didn't realise that it became redundant in 2007 when two thirds of the topic covered ceased to exist and of the remaining bit the methodology shown has changed, as have the forms, so the team that developed the package have been told to go away and start again.

I did get a little warm feeling when one of the later slides used was of a 'model' report to be used to show how the checks should be written up - it was one of mine

 

[rockyroller]

Our's makes a different noise to a meow and the vet said it's to do with dementia

one of our two 16 yr old cats took a nose-dive today (figurative expression). Daughter came home to it limping around. the rear legs seem afflicted. emergency visit at the Vet's, they don't know, only gave her some anti inflammatory but cat seems knocked out. no result from physical exam. expensive x-rays scheduled next week. google says it could be any number of things. love them while we have them, right? but now we have to accommodate a cat that can't navigate our 4 floors incl. litter in basement. bought 2 low trays & set them up on 2 other floors. hoping she will stay on the main floor tomorrow. we also have it's sibling who is still healthy

 

[Reynard]

one of our two 16 yr old cats took a nose-dive today (figurative expression). Daughter came home to it limping around. the rear legs seem afflicted. emergency visit at the Vet's, they don't know, only gave her some anti inflammatory but cat seems knocked out. no result from physical exam. expensive x-rays scheduled next week. google says it could be any number of things. love them while we have them, right? but now we have to accommodate a cat that can't navigate our 4 floors incl. litter in basement. bought 2 low trays & set them up on 2 other floors. hoping she will stay on the main floor tomorrow. we also have it's sibling who is still healthy

Awh xxx Pawsies crossed for her from all of us here chez Casa Reynard.

 

[Jenkins]

ERNIE's been very good to me this month - some treats to come I think.

 

[Reynard]

Right, 'm off to bed.

Nunnight one and all xxx

 

[raleighnut]

I checked the tuning on the two guitars that don’t get played often and played them. I still prefer the cheapie sparkly one over the proper grown-up APX

I much prefered my Japanese Squier Telecaster 9that got stolen from the house) to the 'Genuine' American Telecaster that the insurance payout and a bunch of cash I replaced it with (Corona California American Standard made in 2000)
Upside being that has held its value.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Cycling is out then?
Said you were like an area manager I knew.

Would just a visual trip diary work. Gets past any language barriers in its favour.

Just remember, it's service numbers you should take note of, not locomotive numbers.

Best o'luck with the old place.

You wouldn't believe the allergic response I get from most clients to the idea of physical exercise; I've often lived further from work than a client and reached it more quickly because they insisted on catching two separate buses and waiting for fifteen minutes for a six minute bus journey.

Unfortunately I often find it is part of a general learned helplessness; they've been told so long they are incapable or a victim by people around them, that they can't think beyond the most obvious, or most fear based response. This is certainly part of the problem with the client I'm working with at the moment.

Some clients respond to assistance with excitement and joy at realising they are capable of something they were told was beyond them, others double down and make all manner of excuses for not trying.

The "Visual trip diary" is basically what I had in mind. One of the ironies of life is that I don't always have an English language vocabulary for what my job entails. I tend to do things visually because my written German is still pants and I don't want to confuse people more than is necessary.

And... yeah... service numbers, not locomotive numbers... Um... I knew that...

 

[biggs682]

Hump day has arrived
Looks damp outside
There goes yesterday

 

[Andy in Germany]

Today is my Friday. Tomorrow is travelling to Family in Stuttgart day, and I'll be taking the Winter bike to exchange for my much-missed Xtracycle longtail which has been sitting and gathering dust.

The Xtracycle can be the local pootling/shopping bike and the Winter bike will probably be the backup for Youngest Son to ride to school...