The Retirement Thread

[12boy]

Tenkaykev...one day I was coming home from work on my bike and was hailed by an older gent on a touring bike loaded down with panniers fore and aft who inquired as to where the KOA campgrounds were. I explained one was maybe 1/2 mile from our location and was the nicer of the two and the other about 8 miles further. He asked which one I'd chose and I said the closer unless you need to ride a little further. He said he had already ridden 140 miles from Rawlins that day and that was adequate. Turns out he was riding from New Jersey to Oregon, about 4500 miles. KOAs are usually occupied by RVs and trailer folks but they also have the odd tenter.

 

[12boy]

BTW.....for a ride today and it wasn't long but sure felt puny for the last 6 miles or so, going uphill in a headwind. Got home and found it a little hard to push to its spot in bike shed #1. Rear brake was binding. I will try it again tomorrow. Be nice to be able to blame the bike and not my aged decrepitude.

 

[Mo1959]

Oh and good morning to Mo as I am sure she will be checking in the next few hours 😘😀😀

Yep. Good morning. Chilly but not as frosty looking as last night so must have lifted a bit. This mornings run won't be far as I'm feeling slightly tender. Just the bare minimum to keep the challenge going.

 

[screenman]

Good morning to you all.

 

[PaulSB]

Country File was good, well the few minutes I saw of it before nodding off, thought it was Saturday when I woke up.

It was. Today is Sunday.

 

[PaulSB]

More and more of this just now. You really have to double check everything now.

Apart from the current Amazon scam of regular phone calls to say our Prime account has a problem we don't suffer from scammers by phone or email.

What I have done is install a password manager and delete all the personal data Google had kindly "helped" me with over the years.

I'm using LastPass. There's a bit of work involved initially but once that's done it's very easy to use. Everywhere I visit on the web is stored in LastPass, even CC, which stores all the data on my laptop or phone rather than in the cloud. Once a day I log in to LastPass using a much more complicated password than anywhere else. From there the software automatically logs me in and out of any account I chose.

I find it very useful.

 

[Drago]

I have risen!

Breakfast made for Mrs D and Mini D. Will walk Mini D to achool3 and then take Lemmy for a walk.

I was planning to ride into Northampton to drop some CD's off to someone, but this for is treacherous. If it doesnt improve after sun up then i'll give that a miss. I'll ride in anything, but a pea souper is my limit - don't want to be murdered by some myopic Audi driver.

 

[PaulSB]

Good day to you all. This morning feels drier, no chilling damp in the air, and we are forecast for clear skies and sunshine.

Sipping my coffee I was struck by how repetitive my morning posts have become. Apologies. Yes, I'm going for a ride, no I don't have any other plans. It just goes on and on............but as we chatted about during yesterday's coffee stop us retired folk really should not complain, it could be so much worse.

Exercises next and then the ironing.

 

[screenman]

Wow! -2 and extremely thick fog out there, stay safe guys.

 

[Paulus]

Good morning all fellow retirees.
It is misty and cold out there
An early dog walk and the I will cycle down to Sainsbury's to pick up the wine order 🍷🍷🍷.
Then a stop at the local shops for a few essentials on the way home.
Another busy day in paradise.

 

[Mo1959]

Good day to you all. This morning feels drier, no chilling damp in the air, and we are forecast for clear skies and sunshine.

Sipping my coffee I was struck by how repetitive my morning posts have become. Apologies. Yes, I'm going for a ride, no I don't have any other plans. It just goes on and on............but as we chatted about during yesterday's coffee stop us retired folk really should not complain, it could be so much worse.

Exercises next and then the ironing.

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My days are very samesy too........I made that word up by the way I suppose a combination of retirement and Covid restrictions mean it will be the same for many. As long as you are content enough with your lot, that's all that matters.

4.2 mile run done, running gear in the wash....apart from one sock that escaped and didn't notice it till the wash was half way through. Lol.

Brekkie soon. Back to the fruit and fibre I think today since it's a bit milder.

 

[welsh dragon]

Morning. My days tend to be the samey as well.

No frost here as we have a lot of fog that kept the temp up a bit.

Stay safe folks.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Got to take the CRV in for 4 new tyres this morning.
Will drop it in at the garage, pick up a newspaper and walk back home from the village, to take doggie for a walk.
Our bestest friends move to Minehead today.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Good morning people

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Apart from the current Amazon scam of regular phone calls to say our Prime account has a problem we don't suffer from scammers by phone or email.

What I have done is install a password manager and delete all the personal data Google had kindly "helped" me with over the years.

I'm using LastPass. There's a bit of work involved initially but once that's done it's very easy to use. Everywhere I visit on the web is stored in LastPass, even CC, which stores all the data on my laptop or phone rather than in the cloud. Once a day I log in to LastPass using a much more complicated password than anywhere else. From there the software automatically logs me in and out of any account I chose.

I find it very useful.

There's an interesting article here on turning off some of Google and Facebooks tracking.

https://www.thequint.com/tech-and-auto/tech-news/how-to-stop-facebook-and-google-from-spying-on-you