Mundane News

[Reynard]

Time to feed the cat, and then it will be time to feed me.

 

[Mike_P]

Was sunny immediately post WAH as the ebike was subject to toss the caber to remove its wheels for cleaning out the inside of the mudguards and regrease the skewer ends etc - had an annoying squeak yesterday. By the time it headed to Sainsburys the sun quickly disappeared and the wind was noticeable. Definately not as pleasant as the last two evenings. Last day of the current 99p 2 pints milk personal Nectar offer; just one bought - still have nearly two left from the car visit last week and it was a lightly loaded pannier for the return while 5 oranges occupied the rucksack. Back home and the grass seed finally applied to the rear "lawn" trusting it gets a good soaking given the weather forecast.

 

[DCLane]

I've finished my last teaching session, a lecture, for the academic year. Nothing in the diary currently until September apart from the odd meeting and exam boards.

Which is good, as I've only taken a single day's holiday since last August.

 

[Reynard]

Fabby supper of sea bass steamed with pickled ginger, egg & onion fried rice and stir fried spring greens with soy, sesame & chilli

Now enjoying a fabulous evening's play in the snooker.

 

[tyred]

They can be a bit sneaky sometimes and get the careless. On the A90 Perth/Aberdeen which is dual carriageway and motorway in all but name there is a short section of 50mph which can get the unaware and after miles of speeding it is hard to keep the speed down. I will probably get lambasted for writing that but they never got me at a time when I was shuttling up and down regularly.

It remains to be seen where there put it but the road in question is about 12 miles long and is initially dual carriageway, then changes to wide, single carriageway with hard shoulders on both sides. The last few miles has never been upgraded and is lined with trees, barely wide enough for two hgvs to go side by side and has a few bends with very poor sightlines. That is the place where they should put the camera (and imo lower the speed limit) but more than likely they'll put it on the dual carriageway part where there's much less danger because that's the sort of silly thing the councils around here do.

 

[tyred]

Nice 35 miles ridden on my single speed although I had to walk a small bit of it. Starting to feel fitter again.

 

[Jenkins]

Very little to report after this morning - a warm walk down to the station, trains were on time, still warm when I got home so went out for a quick 10 mile shopping trip by bike (long dated chipolatas on yellow label and some butter to go on toast).

One thing I have found out is that the tower I culd see on my walk to the hotel that I thought was a mosque's minaret turned out to me part of Strangeways prison which was only a couple of hundred yards up the road. Not only that, one of the banes of my pre-retirement work life (the Cheetham Hill area) was very close by as well.

 

[tyred]

The boyracers are circulating again.

 

[rockyroller]

Laptop or desktop?

laptop. an older MacBook Pro, but not as old as the one that died. a lot of my problems originate in my ignorance. I often claim that programmers don't work w/ enough dummies like me & they assume the users will be zipping around working all the settings as if they themself were part of the machine. but I am human!

 

[rockyroller]

I think I fried one of my camera cards while trying to use it w/ the new computer. hmmm ...

yup it was toast. formatted it & moving on w/ life. gonna have to get more vids of Mom

 

[rockyroller]

Time to feed the cat, and then it will be time to feed me.

counting the days until there's an "s" in that sentence

 

[Gravity Aided]

Just come down stairs to find a more blonde swmbo than normal

I came home to find Mrs. GA with curly hair and a new hair-do for her sorority fete.

 

[rockyroller]

can I come over?

 

[Gravity Aided]

can I come over?

About an 800 mile trip or so, IIRC.

 

[Gravity Aided]

But I do have extra grocery store fried chicken. Also a beagle constantly lamenting my wife's absence. Or her bad fortune in not getting to go to a fancy steakhouse and piano bar. I would say on a level with Ruth's Chris, but I would rather go a Brazilian thingy rather than there.