The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

We didn't bother with fries. The pizza was enough

 

[12boy]

My neighbor and I will be going for a stroll up to a coffee place about a mile south at 1:30pm. This should be fun...it will be 33F, the wind will be 36 w/55 mph gusts and the trip to the coffee will head into it. We must be nucking futz but he is a guy who liked to ride a bike up to the top of Casper Mountain with 45 lbs in his paniers. We will be staggering along like a pair of old sots.
I need to get six 40 lb baags of water softener salt and some groceries so after I eat some breakfast I will go while the wind is only 30 mph. I will be driving, however. Mrs 12 fancies a beef stew so I will get a bunch of beef for the crock pot.
Be well and safe.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Actually, maybe it is the other way round... that the delivery person doesn't know what the code is so the only way that they can get it is by delivering the parcel to the right person rather than chucking in a ditch or stealing it themselves! It could be to keep them honest?

Delivered at 10 to 2, delivery person had the number and I had to read it out to him from my E-Mail, looks like they are trying to get it to the right person. Within an hour we were watching it, its a lot lighter than the old Toshiba, which is about 11 years old, we were watching, I had to be a bit creative fitting the stand, the stand is a bit small, otherwise we'd have been watching it earlier.

 

[ColinJ]

I should have had my snooze as planned... Instead I made myself a pot of coffee and got back to working on my game.

20 minutes later I dozed for a second and spilt some coffee on my left leg. Fortunately, the coffee had cooled off a bit, the lid stayed on my thermos mug which limited the spillage, and the coffee missed my laptop.

Another 20 minutes later I dozed off again and in doing so stabbed at the mouse mat with the wireless mouse in my right hand, resulting in a chunk of source code being highlighted and dragged off to a new location.

I'll probably be back later posting from my phone that I trashed the laptop by dozing off a third time and dropping it on the floor!

 

[classic33]

I should have had my snooze as planned... Instead I made myself a pot of coffee and got back to working on my game.

20 minutes later I dozed for a second and spilt some coffee on my left leg. Fortunately, the coffee had cooled off a bit, the lid stayed on my thermos mug which limited the spillage, and the coffee missed my laptop.

Another 20 minutes later I dozed off again and in doing so stabbed at the mouse mat with the wireless mouse in my right hand, resulting in a chunk of source code being highlighted and dragged off to a new location.

I'll probably be back later posting from my phone that I trashed the laptop by dozing off a third time and dropping it on the floor!

I thought they claimed coffee acted as a stimulant, stopping you sleeping. Or at least making it harder come by.

 

[ColinJ]

I thought they claimed coffee acted as a stimulant, stopping you sleeping. Or at least making it harder come by.

That's why there were 20 minute gaps between dozes - I felt really knackered before the coffee!

 

[Juan Kog]

Talking of Amazon

Fly tipped in a lane I use as a cut through. The lane goes round the back of a large Amazon warehouse, so a bit odd seeing it dumped there .
(edit) There food delivery bags , each one contained 3 freezer blocks . No I didn’t take the blocks home , we have enough already.

 

[classic33]

Talking of Amazon View attachment 624122
Fly tipped in a lane I use as a cut through. The lane goes round the back of a large Amazon warehouse, so a bit odd seeing it dumped there .

Did you pick a pair up, for use as panniers.

 

[postman]

You were lucky.....we had to make do with a pudding spoon.

You were lucky,we had to swallow brimstone and treacle off a,ladle,in my old school Dothboys Hall Mrs Squeers,horrible old hag.

 

[Dirk]

You were lucky,we had to swallow brimstone and treacle off a,ladle,in my old school Dothboys Hall Mrs Squeers,horrible old hag.

You were lucky! We had it poured down our throats, straight out of the tin.

 

[ColinJ]

I just got an email from a pal who is on his winter trip to Texas (near the border with Mexico) where they have had a freak heat wave. It has been 30.5 C (87 F) in the shade and 43 C (110 F) in direct sunlight... Yikes!!!

 

[pawl]

Garden cold frame delivered this afternoon That’s my Saturday morning taken care of.

 

[PaulSB]

Haven't heard of these new delivery codes before. Sounds like a good idea. My new phone is due on Tuesday, I'll be interested to see how that comes.

 

[classic33]

Haven't heard of these new delivery codes before. Sounds like a good idea. My new phone is due on Tuesday, I'll be interested to see how that comes.

In a box, that'll be in the back of a van. How else?

 

[numbnuts]

Morning, but it's very dark and no one is around, I think I'll go back to bed