The Retirement Thread

[SpokeyDokey]

Another walk done. Sunny but breezy. A classic car thing based up at the Hydro Hotel. They seemed to be driving around the roads at times and I got a right whiff of rotten eggs as one group passed so someone’s clutch must have been slipping.

Are you up near Pitlochry - we stayed in the Athol Palace Hotel some years back in one of their turret suites - really nice hotel.

 

[Mo1959]

Are you up near Pitlochry - we stayed in the Athol Palace Hotel some years back in one of their turret suites - really nice hotel.

No Crieff….not that far away.

 

[pawl]

So, it was you making the close pass ?

Speaking of smug Pensioners, we were enroute so that Mrs @BoldonLad could do her weekly Church attendance. When I met her, after the service, she said “it was all old people”. I would just point out, we are 75!

I often say that and I’m 81 When I was waiting for my fourth covid jab there were five others waiting When I left to meet Mrs p I said it was all old people.She said your not a spring chicken,more a tough old Turkey

 

[ColinJ]

When I was watching the women's L-B-L race earlier I was thinking that they all looked so young - young enough to be my daughters. Then I thought 'Get real, Col - many of them are young enough to be your granddaughter'!

How does age creep up on one so quickly...?

 

[classic33]

When I was watching the women's L-B-L race earlier I was thinking that they all looked so young - young enough to be my daughters. Then I thought 'Get real, Col - many of them are young enough to be your granddaughter'!

How does age creep up on one so quickly...?

It's been pedaling quicker than you.

 

[ColinJ]

I've been looking at Amazon customer Q&A for certain products. There are some useful questions and useful answers, but some of them...

One rude person obviously had too much time on her/his hands... (S)He went through lots of questions simply answering 'Google'!

Other people clearly felt that particular questions were aimed directly at them, and that it was only polite to answer... Q: "Can the Superthrust 6's power booster be used to calibrate the ergo-widget before engaging the device's wireless telekinesis mode?" A: "Ooh, I don't know. It all sounds terribly complicated. I'm sure that somebody out there must know the answer!"

 

[classic33]

I've been looking at Amazon customer Q&A for certain products. There are some useful questions and useful answers, but some of them...

One rude person obviously had too much time on her/his hands... (S)He went through lots of questions simply answering 'Google'!

Other people clearly felt that particular questions were aimed directly at them, and that it was only polite to answer... Q: "Can the Superthrust 6's power booster be used to calibrate the ergo-widget before engaging the device's wireless telekinesis mode?" A: "Ooh, I don't know. It all sounds terribly complicated. I'm sure that somebody out there must know the answer!"

No, it could end up bending time, in all directions.

 

[numbnuts]

Evening all, not done much today, failed woldle so not a great start, made 24 mince pies as I was running short, other than that not even been outside the door, come to think about it I don't think I have been outside the door since Wednesday when I went shopping.

 

[classic33]

Evening all, not done much today, failed woldle so not a great start, made 24 mince pies as I was running short, other than that not even been outside the door, come to think about it I don't think I have been outside the door since Wednesday when I went shopping.

You were running short of mince pies, I don't believe that.

 

[PaulSB]

What I was talking about last night had nothing to with tags, metadata, whatever... The music was playing on the TV and the phone was listening to it from 3 metres away - it was doing it purely from the sound.

I know. You're post was simply Google's ability to identify virtually anything from a variety of different media types. It's been going for a long time.

 

[PaulSB]

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Saw this little group, this morning, whilst waiting to join Norwich Road A1062, near Ludham, Norfolk, with Mrs @BoldonLad. Don't know if any of you are in the group? We could have caught them up (in our dreams).

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and, another(?) group, while waiting to join same road, at a different junction.

Yeah, that was us on the way home..........

 

[Chief Broom]

Evening folks its like november up here with a biting northerly...and the northerly theme is for at least another week
At least my 'Swan Lake' and 'Dublin Bay' roses are doing ok with swelling buds and some leaf growth....dont ask about tomatoes... I found what looked like a 20ft fishing pole on top of my fence.....whats that for i wondered? apparently the old guy before me used it with a bird of prey kite to scare off the sea gulls, he also didnt like cats and put plastic spikes on top so they wouldnt climb over...anyhow he passed away and could be in heaven or is being buzzed by sea gulls and tormented by dumping/ scratching cats in the other place.....

 

[Deleted member 1258]

No, it could end up bending time, in all directions.

Or it could cause a split in the space time continuem ending the universe as we know it.

 

[classic33]

Or it could cause a split in the space time continuem ending the universe as we know it.

There is that possibility as well.

 

[ColinJ]

I really like my Google Pixel 5 phone and I would like it to last me at least 4 or 5 years (unless some must-have new phone feature appears in that time, which I doubt will happen).

I have had a couple of phones in the past eventually start to fail at the USB socket from repeated insertion and removal of the charging cable.

Unlike my older phones, this one supports wireless charging so I thought I'd give it a go to save wear and tear on that USB socket. I have ordered a cheapo wireless charger from Amazon and will see if that does the trick. If not, I will splash out and get a more upmarket model. If this one works well it will be a bargain - £12.99 including the high power mains 'brick'. The device will also simultaneously charge ear buds and a smart watch, not that I have those - yet!

I ordered it at 01:15 and it should be delivered today. We'll see. (I had intended to try out delivery to one of those Amazon lockers but I couldn't see an option to do that. I'll investigate how to do it before my next order.)

I still find ordering things from Amazon online and getting things delivered the same day incredible. Compare that with this kind of experience...

If a teenager without well-off parents wanted a decent stereo amp (s)he might ... spend a month or two learning basic electronics, how to use a soldering iron etc. Buy copies of Practical Wireless, Practical Electronics (whatever) and select an amplifier project. Read the ads and find companies doing the printed circuit boards for the project in question and order them. Write letters to various other companies (or phone them) to ask for copies of their component catalogues. Wait for the catalogues to arrive. Fill the order forms in for the various companies, write cheques to them and send off the orders. Wait a week or two for the parts to arrive. There would always be some parts out of stock. Find alternative mail order suppliers for them, or catch the bus to the city centre and go to the local electronics supply store. (They were more expensive, so that's why you didn't get all the parts from them in the first place.) Spend a few nights soldering the components onto the PCBs. Make a case for the amp and put the various bits into that. Test the amp. Spend a week trying to work out why it wasn't working properly. Fix it. Several months after you started out, you finally had a working stereo amp!